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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
golden doll
In "Let's talk architecture"
2005 – Beirut, Lebanon
Doll and golden adhesive
Invited to Beirut for a three-week workshop, Hassan Darsi will produce the "Golden Doll", a new element added to the "Gold Applications". In one of the spaces in ruins of a Druze village overlooking Beirut – Aley – he will spend fifteen days adorning a doll recovered from a trash can with small lozenges of golden adhesive, leaving only its frozen eyes visible.
(Excerpt from the chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
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