Michael MacGarry talks about his video Excuse me, while I disappear, filmed in Angola, at an urban development built by the Chinese for 600 thousand people. The artists comments on how the inadequacy of the real estate project, which imports an American model and ends up offering apartments at an impossible price for the vast majority of the Angolan population, exemplifies an unsuccessful utopia in Africa. The surreal conclusion of the movie, in which a young sweeper disappears within the immensity of the uninhabited newly built edifices, highlights the failure of the project and the absurdity of the situation.
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