Even the sun has rumors
Video installation, 18 mn, loop, two-sound channel, variable dimensions, 2017
Tunisian Arabic | English & French CC
In the mining town of Redeyef (Tunisia), a disused site still full of affect: the staff co-op. Established and managed by the phosphate company of Gafsa during colonial times, this empty site still retains within its walls the stratum of the ambivalence of a history where the sparkling surface relates the arrival, where there is nothing, of a haven of comfort for a society burdened by work in the mine.
But beyond the initial impression, it’s a darker reality that the staff co-op induces: that of a commercial extension of a mine exploiting the earth as much as its people.
A vestige site, the staff co-op is a place of abandoned memory that a videographic and poetic eye penetrates, bringing to light, by the chiaroscuro of the time that goes by, through the voice of a child still living in the memories of a mine worker, the spaces, surfaces and historic depth of a site is portrayed.
But beyond the initial impression, it’s a darker reality that the staff co-op induces: that of a commercial extension of a mine exploiting the earth as much as its people.
A vestige site, the staff co-op is a place of abandoned memory that a videographic and poetic eye penetrates, bringing to light, by the chiaroscuro of the time that goes by, through the voice of a child still living in the memories of a mine worker, the spaces, surfaces and historic depth of a site is portrayed.
By Mohamed-Ali Berhouma, author, Tunisia
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