Stains
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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