An archive — sentimental and fragmentary — that captures the speed and violence of urban transformations
For six years, Isabelle Massenet has been walking through the southern suburbs on foot, starting from Cachan. Moved by the scale, speed, and violence of the urban transformations underway, she set out to paint the buildings — more or less old, small or large — encountered along the way, and to collect stories from the suburbs. Brought together in a bookcase cabinet, paintings, maps, books, and various documents form a kind of archive — sentimental and fragmentary — yet one that nonetheless aims to offer a sensitive image of the diversity that is disappearing, erased by the construction sites of Grand Paris and metropolitan densification.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: Isabelle Massenet