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Drawings (ink, graphite pencil, and transfer on cotton paper), sculpture (a metal barrel and 2 taxidermied seagulls), piezography and lithography prints
© Blaise Adilon
Since the beginning of the Calais camp, the artist has undertaken a documentary approach based on a practice of graphic and photographic recordings. The installation conceived by Chamekh brings together a portion of this collection as well as a video featuring a single long static shot of a dwelling consumed by flames (Never give up). Prior to the dismantling organized by the Pas-de-Calais prefecture in March 2016, several refugees, forced to abandon what they had built and invented together, set fire to their makeshift homes.
This body of memory is further enriched by five assemblages arranged according to specific concepts: "common ground", "sharing", "multiplying", "attaching", and "flying". These assemblages, by confronting heterogeneous spaces and times and creating gaps—or even doubts—about the history as it is commonly told, question the foundations of our relationship to the world, namely, the act of dwelling together. Contrary to popular belief, wasn’t the mass destruction of the Jungle aimed at halting an unprecedented experiment—the creation and living of a shared world?