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The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures. 2012
Elements of the installation:
Repairs
Shelves, wooden sculptures made by traditional sculptors of Dakar, Senegal, marble sculptures made by traditional sculptors of Carrara, Italy, vintage newspapers and books, ancient revues, original photographs, African artifacts repaired in their original context, photocopies, metallic elements, slide show
Repair as cultural anthropophagy and resistance
Video film, vitrines, mestizo objects (objects of extraoccidental cultures integrating an element of occidental cultures), trench art (objects made in trenches by soldiers of WW1 with bullets' cartridges and artillery shells)
Exhibited at:
dOCUMENTA (13)
9 June - 16 Sept. 2012
Kassel, Germany
Essay about his installation "The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures", shown at Documenta 13.