The West has long considered Africa a continent where anything goes. Detritus of all kinds gets dumped there. The shipping of industrial scrap metal to Tunisia has been constantly on the rise in the past several decades, fuelling a criminal syndicate run by families with government connections. These scrap-metal yards outside the greater Tunis area represent a kind of parallel, secret world with its own laws, police, and justice. Since the fall of Ben Ali’s regime these scrapyards have remained, like everything else, in a state of suspended animation, awaiting the outcome of an uncertain future.
Exposition Panafricaine
Musée National du Mali
Sophia Baraket (Tunisie)
Les Faire ailleurs, 2010
