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
display
1995
Display and photographs format postcards
In 1995, Hassan Darsi was invited by the French Institute to participate in the exhibition Fragment d'imaginaire which offers a vision of Casablanca through 11 artists. He chooses to present a series of innocuous photographs, taken on the fly and without any real plastic concerns. The black and white prints in postcard format, jagged on the edges, are all screen-printed with the same mention "Souvenir de Casablanca" and simply installed in a display stand recovery. Artifices – black and white, serration – which transform these deliberately banal images into totems of an outdated modernity, a mode of presentation – the usual postcard display rack – which transposes the reality of the street into the space of exhibition a shift on the scale of the city and a propensity for diversion.
(Excerpt from the Chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
