EN:

With Miradors, which bears the subtitle Essai photographique sur l’érosion (Photographic essay on erosion), Marik Boudreau has produced a synthesis of her work on abandoned sites and urban ruins. An attentive reading of the key words given by the artist shows the rigour and complexity of her project. Between the mountains of Andalusia and the cities of Brazil, she opposes points of view from on high to those gazing up from below, the nudity of stone and the urban accumulation. She is interested in the fundamental processes of erosion and stratification. Her commentary is philosophical, aesthetic, and political.

FR:

En parallèle avec la poursuite de son projet de douze ans sur l’aspect vivable, le contexte et les particularités de l’espace en architecture moderne, Haraldsson se penche sur une autre dimension du modernisme, de l’espace bâti et des rapports que nous entretenons avec eux dans ses oeuvres photographiques plus récentes. De ces projets montrant le paysage urbain et la Via Dolorosa de Jérusalem, le Siq de Pétra, en Jordanie, Soweto et Sun City en Afrique du Sud, émergent des notions de pèlerinage et de tourisme prenant la forme de relations entre les corps, le récit et la structure urbaine. Par leur mode de représentation, les matrices du paysage et de l’architecture révèlent des constellations de pouvoir minutieusement construites et mettent en lumière des histoires occultées.

EN:

Stéphane Couturier's Villes génériques series is a continuation of the photographic work on urban sites under construction that he has been producing for a number of years. This archaeology of historical strata of the city has a counterpoint in his photographs of buildings that have become the emblem of a modernity that extends its functional and utilitarian logic to all four corners of the earth. Images taken in Seoul, Moscow, and Beijing attempt to capture this proliferation, which relegates to second place local specificities, replacing them with generic ways of life and of living.