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Left behind accounts

In the South of France, November 2017. The psychiatric hospital is a huge 1900’s building surmounted by a bell tower. Built out of the city town, it now belongs to the vast University clinic that has renamed the district “Hôpitaux-facultés” […]

Posted: December 11th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations

Polygraphy

Berlin, september 2017. Abridged writing, abbreviations, acronyms stand for several words at the same time. Reducing the main thing to a few letters, the inscription is meant to design a precise and circumscribed meaning. But for all that, polysemy is […]

Posted: December 4th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Mots d'ordre

Caution

North Adams, September 2017 In this small western Massachusetts town, the visible brick buildings no longer housed workers or toxic substances. The gigantic rooms of industrial origin had been transformed into halls for a contemporary art museum, blazed by sunlight. […]

Posted: October 16th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Modes d'emploi, Mots d'ordre

Vandalart

Paris, march 2017. If streets have been invested with various visual and graphic artefacts for many centuries, the last two decades have been characterized by a proliferation of paintings, posters and ceramics drawings usually attributed to the street art movement. […]

Posted: April 24th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Surprise

Fusion

Paris, 19 March 2017. The demonstration had just passed, with its cohort of panels, slogans and flags. Behind it, its traces in the public space are quickly erased by the cleaning services, but the most diverse surfaces to accommodate the […]

Posted: March 20th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières, Surprise

Borders

Northern Alps, February 2017. Above the cloud sea, the sky is blue and the slopes are not full of people. Obsession of the skiers once the slope is done, the queue to the chairlift remains short in this supposed period […]

Posted: February 20th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Mots d'ordre

White

Paris, janvier 2017 The ministry had left the wealthy building of a square full of jewelers for these Parisian margins close to the periphérique. Thus, instead of rooms that seemed to be part of bourgeois apartments, there was a room […]

Posted: January 16th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Matières

Investigation

Paris, may 2013. What is it about? The full restoration of a store and its main window, facing the sidewalk. What the paper is meant to do? Clearly, it’s about “paint”. But we can’t see it. The whole window is […]

Posted: January 9th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

Change

It’s been years, now, that we are supposed to live in a paperless world. Since the seventies, and the emergence of affordable and easy-to-use computers, the disappearance of notebooks, single sheets or post-it has been announced again and again. Yet, […]

Posted: January 2nd, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Instruments

Vegetal

Paris, November 2016 Urban spaces are paradoxically those of Nature. This Nature is certainly tamed, framed, but nevertheless present, protected and patrimonialised. Thus, until recently, only city authorities were able to plant trees and flower beds and, according to the […]

Posted: December 12th, 2016 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

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