In Between
Ink on paper, 21x19.7cm, 2013
Capture this moment when the seafront is a place in transformation: as the first renovation projects start appearing, it remains a hostile place, made of highways, abandoned buildings, and vacant lands, deserted, mineral, and noisy. It is this moment of tension, of a few years or decades, that interests me the most when I visit a city.
Älvsby
Plan
Ink on paper, 21x19.7cm, 2010s
One of the places where I felt the most disoriented is the suburbs of Stockholm, for a very simple reason: the streets are not clearly defined by buildings on either side. Instead, pedestrians often find themselves walking in large green spaces, away from the cars, between different zones assigned to one function: live, work, play, buy… I had discovered the principles of modernist urbanism, before studying them in architecture school.
Île-de-
France
Ink on paper, 21x19.7cm, 2010s
The typical story of a Parisian suburb: a former village, that became an industrial boomtown, then disrupted by post-war urbanism, and today once again in a complete transformation state. The rundown workers' apartment buildings face the new office complexes, as the structure of the city itself is being changed to its core: new roads are drawn, transport lines are extended, entire neighbourhoods are replaced.
Small
Formats
Ink on paper, 10x10cm, 2010s
What can be shown on a small 10x10cm format? A city extract, of just a few streets, can still tell a story: a formerly powerful and now deserted city, an old village surrounded by a bland environment, monumental housing projects that are bound to disappear…
Nowhere
Ink on paper, 21x29.7cm, 2013
When driving, I often wonder what would happen if the car broke here and now, and I had to walk around to look for help. Most of the time, I find myself in an environment that is hostile, if not dangerous, despite the fact that all of the infrastructure around me (interchanges, warehouses, power lines) is made to “serve” humans.
