Omar m’a dit

[Omar told me]

 

Installation, photo, video and texts of epistolary exchanges with Omar Sene [Senegal]
LACONCIERGERIE, La Motte-Servolex, [73]
November 2007 -. January 2008

 

THE CONTEXT

"When I went to collect my passport at the embassy and they told me they denied my visa, it was as if someone had knocked me. I felt like a prisoner in my own country." This sentence gave me the idea of doing this exhibition with Omar. We wanted to do it no matter what.

Omar had much to say. We started our discussions beside his sea, at Poppenguine in August 2005. It was only the beginnig...

Link to Omar's texts