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We carried out this installation from September 9 to 16, 2012 on the Digue du Large. A week in front of the sea, drunk with the wind and the sun, doing this ridiculous and magnificent gesture together. The work withstood a force 9 mistral, but not a few human hands. We have seen of our work only what we give you to see here. Barely completed, the installation was destroyed by a passer-by from La Digue and not a single gold leaf was found around it! We will never know what displeased him so much, or perhaps this passer-by got caught up in the work, seeing in it valuable material ? The investigation was vigorously carried out within the Port and will remain unanswered: who stole the gold from Africa ? that was the question asked, they simply told me at the security service secretariat… The two days that followed, we again covered a few blocks with what was left of the adhesive, to finally see from the sea, during a boat trip, the bursts of light from Golden Africa…
Adrift project
The Repairers of Heaven
"But who are these "repairers of the sky", hieratic figures suspended in the fragmented space of these dismantled architectures? What are they repairing or rather what are they trying to repair? If indeed there is something left to restore in this chaos of black matter splashed with gold… Hassan Darsi adds to the series of Applications gilding a new "evidence" with works as strange as they are disturbing, paintings that are ultimately not really paintings and only borrow from them appearance and potential mediums: black paint and gold dust…"
(excerpt from the text by florence renault, april 2016)
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