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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
Off from the elections
2007
Website, directory and soundtrack
Off of the elections was presented in March 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the MUhka, and on September 21 of the same year in the Iowa in the United States.
Directly linked to the elections of the time, the project is an accessible website, which offers a series of anonymous recordings, excerpts from conversations gleaned and archived at random from meetings and exchanges, classified in some sixty equally pragmatic directories. absurd or poetic.
This "off" to the elections was extended in 2008 by the political color chart which juxtaposes the lists of the various directories with the icons which allow illiterate voters to identify the various political parties running for the elections in Morocco. The following year the artist proposed with Festival a device for listening to recordings inside a "honda" (vehicle of traveling transporters in Morocco) revisited in an overbidding of decorations usually used by drivers.
http//offdeselections.net(today inactive)
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