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The Production of Social Space as Artwork 243
with European and American interests. Throughout the discourse of the
crisis in Africa, the identiWcation of the mendacity of forces of production
with external powers has become deeply entrenched and not without foundation.
These forces in the name of a number of abstract concepts connected
to the great liberal trinity of democracy, free market, and human rights are
often believed to be a kind of third force that has to be fought before the
sovereign African subject can emerge.
Huit Facettes was formed by a group of eight individual—hence its name—
artists in 1996, in Dakar, Senegal. It is different from Le Groupe Amos in
that it is self-identiWed as an artistic collective, using the means of art and
FIGURE 8.7. Huit Facettes-Interaction, two shots of installation, “Documenta 11,” Germany, 2002.