Salt is spread across the floor, tracing a white boundary that the body hesitates to cross or traverse.

In Amazigh/Berber and Breton cultures, salt is a substance of protection and passage : it is spread on the thresholds of homes to ward off evil, and used in practices of care and purification as well as in food. This everyday material marks the boundary between two spaces — the visible and the invisible.

The salt used here comes from the brand La Baleine, which belongs to the Salins du Midi group, whose subsidiary has extracted Tunisian salt since the colonial period, based on a 1949 agreement running until 2049.

This installation is protocolary: it reinterprets the Asfel, an Amazigh rite of expulsion of evil requiring salt to be thrown over the space or body to be treated. Using this material to re-enact an Amazigh protective ritual questions both the sacred and political dimensions of the gesture — that which purifies and despoils at the same time.

The salt gradually disappears beneath the footsteps of the audience. What protects eventually vanishes, and what delimits, fades away.