Un car rapide au musée

I am Clément ALLINE and I have been working for several years on a project to promote and film the ffamous car rapid of Dakar. The project is about making a documentary on the mechanics who repair these public transports in a garage in the center of the city. In addition to this initiative, I thought it would be interesting to take advantage of the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art (DONNER UNE DATE) to organize a fundraiser that will allow the efforts of these craftsmen to be devoted to an artistic project for a month. These buses are more than public transport trucks, there are a real work of art emblematic of Senegal, rich of a unique decorative and mechanical know-how. During the whole biennale, artists and craftsmen of one garage will participate in the complete renovation of a fast bus, from recycled metal sheets to its final decoration. In order to make this project possible and for the fast bus to finally be recognized as a contemporary African work of art, we need to purchase the original chassis and the materials necessary for its reconstruction. Therefore, we need your contribution. Each contributor will have his/her name inscribed on it. The objective is to call upon the actors of culture and heritage conservation, both national and international. This truck is becoming increasingly rare in the streets of the Senegalese capital, because it has been replaced by TATA buses from India. The idea is to integrate this truck into the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar. If we can't bring African art back to European museums, we can celebrate and preserve the continent's contemporary folk art on the continent !