So we are witnessing a kind of choice: to wander, to roam, to walk, to flee, but at the same time to settle. It is a kind of metaphor: we decide to settle into individualism, and even the sand used to make the bricks is sand that comes from this land. I thought that this was an interesting topic to work on because it comes down to giving up the sky.Īt the end of the day, we decide not to leave but to settle here. We are starting to abandon things that worked for us until now because we envy what is happening elsewhere. We are adopting a Western model which is in the process of collapsing-it’s not working in Europe, as everyone can see. We have become consumers we want to consume alone and in secret, to create a precise frame for ourselves. Now we are seeing a real search for individuality individualism reigns in these kinds of dwellings. We lived in our family homes or with each other.
The last ten years have seen ever more new buildings and apartment blocks springing up here and there throughout the city, housing infrastructure that is architecturally quite limited-and this despite the fact that it was not our custom to live this way.
#Mame library manager series
My intention with this series was to show the new face of Dakar. This construction is on the old runway of the Dakar airport.