For a number of years, Pierre Amrouche has surveyed Africa from various angles, stunned by his discovery of the continent, in the complacency of his status as a foreigner. Africa is a choice, Africa is his choice. Jours tranquilles au Bénin (Quiet Days in Benin) is a photographic work that bears witness to a fascinating sensuality, a happy time, a time of friendship, an age when Cotonou was a very different city from the one we know today, back in the 1990s.

In this series of photographs, the notions of atmosphere, complicity, exchange and fantasy are palpable. Sequences capturing the intimacy of shared moments, a feeling of deep calm, sleeping models, photographs with no light, each one is a stolen instant that together make up Jours tranquilles au Bénin.

In the exhibition catalogue, the photographs appear in seven sequences, interspersed with poems and extracts from texts.