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Sarbalé Ke at Coachella 2019 by Francis Kéré

By Alex Klimoski

Over two weekends in April, thousands have flocked to the Southern California city of Indio for Coachella’s 20th year. Since its inception, the festival has morphed from a modest music and arts gathering into a multimedia bonanza, with a visual identity best described as a glamorous take on Woodstock-bohemian. For this year’s lineup of monumental artworks there, architect Francis Kéré designed a cluster of 12 kaleidoscopic towers inspired by the baobab tree, a symbol of community in his native Burkina Faso. Called Sarbalé Ke—“house of celebration” in the Mooré language—the installation offers visitors respite from the hot sun; at night, the steel structures, clad with triangular wooden panels, cycle through a glimmering sequence of neon LEDs. “In my culture, where there is no electricity, if we see a light, we watch it for a while,” said Kéré. “If it stays lit, we walk toward it, and there will be a celebration.”

Sarbalé Ke · Coachella, USA · 2019 · Picture credit: Iwan Baan @iwanbaan @coachella pic.twitter.com/lA8CBvp3jA

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