In the beginning of the 1970's began the construction of 1000 villages in Algeria. The aim of this socialist initiative was to end the rural population’s isolation and poverty, to give them back their land, stolen during colonisation, to lead them towards modern agriculture and get them involved into the Algerian revolutionary project, in particular through the agrarian and industrial revolution.

The project was never completely achieved in spite of laudable starting intentions. The esta-blishment and erection of these villages faced ideological and administrative considerations imposing norms of construction that did not meet the farmers’s real needs, apart from isolated cases. The population gradually lost interest in the project which was stopped a few years later.

The work entitled 1000 Villages is the first step of a project of the same name. Following a nar-rative logic, the drawings enable the confron-tation between various elements: house plans, furniture drawn on tracing paper, drawings of spaces, of agricultural land and animals. Press clippings from that era are used as a source for the transfer-reproduced images. Readability be-comes spectrality as utopia crumbles forth. The only reading of the reproductions comes from the caption printed on tracing paper which res-taures the mental space of a news article.

Aside from these drawings, another one was made on a notebook cover inspired by those sold during the 70's and 80's to promote the agrarian and industrial revolution in Algeria.