40 (Signed)

The sense of belonging and the issue of identity are at the base of this beautifully conceived book on the Saharawi, an exiled people living in the Saaharian desert and waiting 40 years to go back home. It was constructed as a journal but it has an acute intensity of a novel. We experience the building up of a highly intense emotional story but it is never entirely disclosed and one that we will never know the ending. By presenting images that range from a harsh reality of everyday life to satellite photos we become aware of its fragile existence as if suspended in a non place in this world. It makes us fully aware of what indifference towards others makes of us.