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DJIBUTI


2002

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DJIBUTI
2002

Nighttime girls

“There are many foreigners here, it’s true, but they’re all soldiers. I know that some girls have married and gone off to Europe with their husbands, but I’ve never met any myself…” Haregua

Abstracts

"(…) In June, when temperatures drop from unbearable to tolerable, the roads in the town center begin to resemble a stage set. Palm trees stand out against the starry night sky. Under the dark arcades, colonial facades light up, and one after the other, red, purple or orange lights flash from the unbroken succession of bars. You’d think that all the armies of the world had named Djibouti as their meeting place.

(…) The nighttime girls are all foreigners to Djibouti. They live in groups, sharing rooms or small apartments. Property owners take advantage of their illegal presence in the country, and their equally illegal activities, to demand exorbitant rents from them."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

DJIBUTI 2848
Haregua, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

DJIBUTI 2850
Haregua 2, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

DJIBUTI 3540
Haregua 3, 2002

Djibouti
Silver print
34 x 25 cm

DJIBUTI 2860
Amina, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 60 cm

DJIBUTI 2862
Amina 2, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 60 cm

DJIBUTI 3542
Wafa, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache on paper
55 x 42 cm

DJIBUTI 2864
Asna Maki, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache enhanced silver print
62 x 93 cm

DJIBUTI 2870
Inab, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache on paper
30 x 21 cm

DJIBUTI 2856
Fatouma, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache on paper
33 x 42 cm

DJIBUTI 2858
La maison de Fatouma, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache on paper
33 x 42 cm

DJIBUTI 2842
Safia, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

DJIBUTI 2844
Mutilation type 1, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache and pencil on paper
37 x 46 cm

DJIBUTI 2846
Mutilation type 2 et 3, 2002

Djibouti
Gouache and pencil on paper
37 x 46 cm

Maps

DJIBUTI 2833
Map of the Horn of Africa, 2001

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

DJIBUTI 2834
Map of the Horn of Africa 2, 2001

Gouache on paper
80 x 60 cm

DJIBUTI 2835
Map of mutilations in Africa, 2001

Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

Books

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