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
Adrift project
May 2009
Water, gold dust, metal walkway, inner tube and foam board model
During the first presentation of this installation for the "Artistic Gateway VII: Edges and Overflow" at the Villa des arts in Casablanca, "Drift Project" occupied the entire space of the exhibition hall and offered the visitor to cross an expanse of water covered in gold dust on a metal walkway from door to door. At the back of the room, “drifting” in the “sea of gold”, a platform associated with an inner tube hinted at the stylized elements of an imaginary architecture, in reference to the future marina of Casablanca.
The installation was updated in 2012 for the retrospective exhibition "Chantiers et autres applications" at Bozar, Brussels, in 2016 for the exhibition "Nel mezzo del mezzo" at the Riso Museum, Palermo, then in 2021 at Charleville-Mézière in the framework of the exhibition "Thinking the possible".
