Stains

 

Pierre, feuille, ciseaux,
Text by Maylis de Kerangal
Le Bec en l’Air/Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, 2012



Stains – Pierrefitte-sur-Seine – Saint-Denis. At the crossroads of these three towns, the site of the new building of the French national archives is surrounded by a heterogeneous, fragmented urban fabric—housing or market garden plots, individual and collective housing, garden city, or high-rise housing estate, wasteland with wild vegetation or velodrome suspended in an unidentified time. A space that is nevertheless organized, where each plot lives and develops according to its own logic, and where the landscape is distinctly ordered from a multitude of unique vantage points, and according to specific framings. In the landscape, local inhabitants and visitors are absorbed in their gestures or thoughts, unaware of the photographer. In place of an unequivocal perspective, there is a distance allowing equivocation and opening up to the polysemy of gestures and bodies (exhibition brochure, Archives nationales, 2012).

Pierre, feuille, ciseaux, a book with a selection of images from that series and a text by Maylis de Kerangal was published by Le Bec en l’Air.




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