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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
Showcase
August 1998
Golden frame, Spanish white and mixed media
The Showcase offers an interactive device consisting of a text written upside down and read upright by reflection on a glass plate and a black drape whose contours are underlined by a golden frame. Covered with a thin layer of Spanish white, the window became the receptacle of visitors inscriptions over the course of the exhibition at the same time as, by partially erasing the white dust, it revealed the artist's text.
(Excerpt from the chronobiography of Hassan Darsi - florence renault, 2011)
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