Jours intranquilles
“This series covers all the trips I made to Algeria after 1999. After this stay in 1999, I tried again to go everywhere I could; but traveling in Algeria is, each time, a painful and difficult experience. It borders on the unspeakable. I always have the impression of falling into a bottomless pit from which I will never come out (…)
I have, among other things, carried out in spring 2003 a crossing of Algeria from east to west. It was an old project that I had wanted to carry out in 1993 but which I had to give up at the time in front of the murderous madness that the country knew. The trip lasted 25 days and I left from the Tunisian border to the Moroccan border.
This trip was geographical, of course: the mountains of Kabylia, the plain of Mitidja, Algiers, the center, the Oranais… it was also an opportunity to meet the people who make this country, to see what happens to them and to know their hopes. I also took advantage of the relative calm that the country was experiencing to go to the areas (central region, Mitidja, western region) where terrorism had presented its most violent forms: large massacres, arbitrary arrests, disappearances, etc. In these places, the populations were caught in a pincer movement between the violence of the armed groups, the arbitrariness and terror of the state forces.
It was during this stay that I felt that my work in Algeria, at least in this form, was coming to an end.”
Bruno Boudjelal
DETAILS
Intranquil Days is composed of :
Travels to Setif : 68 framed black and white prints, format 27x40cm
Benthala, the places of a massacre: 14 color prints, size 50x75cm
Algeria from east to west: 70 prints of various sizes
1 contact sheet, size 90cmx100cm
Extracts facsimiles of the newspaper.
Slide show of 28 minutes.
ImageSingulières, Sète, 2012
ImageSingulières, Sète, 2012
ImageSingulières, Sète, 2012
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