![]() version française plus bas « L’Agence (The Agency) », installation, 2013-2015. 25 digital photographs, ink-jet print, plexiglas, cables, 1 drawing (colour pencil on paper), 6 models on paper (colours pencils, inkjet and laser print). 2013-2015. Window from Rezdechaussée, Bordeaux. |
The world is the futur of the man. Henri Lefebvre, in « Critic of Everyday Life » (1947)
Staging images of urban and « usual » European landscape, mostly from East Europa, « L’Agence » (the agency) is questioning in a poetically and in an off-center way we are taking a look on real estate property on Western countries. Displacement The installation is provoking subtle shifts in meaning: the place which receive, a former locksmith-metal worker’s workshop, became since 2010 an art and project-room. During a couple of weeks, the installation is transforming the window of the art place into a real estate agency store front. It is bringing us beyond the borders, in Poland, Slovakia, France and Germany, between 2013 and 2015. Photographs of little structures, minimized and reduced scale building is bringing a multiplicity of fictions. Some of these structures are in bad condition or are using waste material. They are creating an aesthetic of precarity, in discrepancy with the usual pictures of real estate agency or architect studios. They are bringing famous, sometimes forgotten, individual or collective stories. A story of here and somewhere « L’agence » is fictional offering to buy, rent or invest in those small precarious structures in « distant » country. « distant » from where the installation took place, here in Bordeaux. It is working like a scenario where the visitor is welcome, if he wishes, to create is own narrative. Link are developed between the different photographs, of which historical and geographical origin varies, showing kiosks from post-soviet countries, German community garden sheds, parties and events stand or asylum-seekers. With a possibility of games and discrepancies, L’Agence is questioning a world which aims to standardized itself. It is breaking the rules, often idealized, of real estate property representation. |
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« L’Agence », installation. 25 photographies numériques, impression jet d’encre, plexiglas, câbles, 1 dessin (crayon de couleur sur papier). 6 maquettes en papier(crayon de couleur, impression jet d’encre et laser). 2013-2015. Dans la vitrine de Rezdechaussée, Bordeaux.
Le monde est l’avenir de l’homme. Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (1947)
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