Where the desert forgets

Where the Desert Forgets is an ongoing documentary project developed along the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara, between Dakhla and the Mauritanian border.

I am interested in how this landscape is being transformed through tourism, infrastructure, fishing, roads and new forms of development, and in what remains absent or difficult to see within that transformation.

The project does not try to explain the territory directly. Instead, it looks at repetition, silence and everyday scenes: antennas disguised as palm trees, desert roads, fishing settlements, temporary buildings, tourist spaces and traces of transit. Through these images, I explore how political realities can become embedded in the landscape, not always through visible events, but through atmosphere, surface and the organisation of space.