The maker of this installation is from Togo. The work is a portrait of optimism as described by Voltaire in his book 'Candide'. The book is an attempt to contradict the Leibnizian vision about optimism.

The installation put the viewer in the maker's world: Like Candide (the main personage in the book), the audience MUST deal with strange social codes.
The work reopen the discussion about integration of strangers in Holland. Must a stranger integrate and ignore his background? Candide experienced real life and realized that life is not only the castle with all its privileges. The book ends with: ''On doit cultiver notre jardin...''(we must take care of our garden). there is then no best culture; we must all keep learning... The viewer of the installation is a guest of a dinner where he has to use his hands to eat. Spoons and forks are worked in a lamp that glows in front of him.