Paris-Alger

“Algeria is not part of the world. It is as if it turned its back on it to sink into its own belly. To create there is to rediscover the deep meaning of the cry, measuring one’s own resistance at every moment. The air is dry, brittle, nothing can grow, everything is doomed to break. The body is still burning its last reserves. The mind is caged so that fate can be fulfilled. You have to hold on in order to scream, you have to scream so that everything can start again. I thought that perhaps we should plant a lighthouse in the heart of Algeria to signal to the rest of the world that we are living in a desperate yet tenacious way, to take our place in this lighthouse and believe that we are at the centre of the world. Algeria is not part of the world.”