Farà

after Souleymane Bassoko

Souleymane Bassoko is a stretcher-bearer at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny and a late secretary for Surgün. For the time being, although he has sent me a few messages, he doesn’t want to meet me. He has even tried to dissuade me from looking too deeply into Surgün’s affairs, without formally forbidding it. So I’ve had very little information about his life and work in Surgün. All I know is that he got into trouble for using medical equipment (X-rays, MRI, fluorography, etc.) for personal purposes. I also know that he wanted to work at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des musées de France. In short, I was convinced that Souleymane Bassoko was trying to penetrate the surface of images. In Bambara, Fàra means ‘peel’ but also to open, to separate, to divide…