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-------------------------------- Airports are some of the most secured public areas in the world. Dedicated to transit during the day, they turn into huge empty warehouses at night, where people waiting for their connection or early flights, and unable to afford a hotel room, try to find some sleep. Train stations are located downtown, and therefore there are always some remnants of nightly activities inside or around them. Being disconnected from the city, airports are on the other hand a world apart where silence and absence of motion preside. Through this work, I am trying to convey the eerie feeling that was always my silent partner during those many hours I spent wandering in airports. Every single night, a place dedicated to welcome thousands of people in motion turn into its exact opposite, and was never designed to be seen or even used like this. A perfect anomaly. Light remains the principal character in this project. Clinical and blinding, oppressive for some and soothing for others, it leaves no place for concealment, and projects the visitor into an overwhelming sense of vacuity and absence. Artificial lights drawing the sleeping out of the shadowy enclaves they are used to; energy wastage subjugated to the security obsession : it is here that two fundamental contemporary preoccupations of our time collide head on. -------------------------------- Avec l'augmentation constante du trafic aérien, la porte des grandes mégalopoles contemporaines est aujourdhui plus que jamais laéroport. Dédiés au transit en journée, ils se transforment la nuit en de gigantesques entrepôts désertés, où les voyageurs attendant leur correspondance du matin ou ne pouvant soffrir une chambre dhôtel, tentent de trouver le sommeil. La nuit, les gares ferroviaires, ancrées en centre ville, restent le centre névralgique de toute activité urbaine. Déconnecté du centre tout en faisant partie intégrante de la ville, laéroport est en revanche un monde à part ou le silence et limmobilité dominent. A travers ce travail, jai souhaité retranscrire le sentiment vaporeux et étrange qui ma accompagné durant ces longues nuits derrances photographiques. Chaque soir, un lieu dédié à laccueil de milliers de personnes en mouvement se transforme en son contraire le plus parfait, et na jamais été conçu pour être vu ou même utilisé ainsi. Une anomalie quotidienne. La lumière reste le personnage principal de ce projet. Chirurgicale et aveuglante, oppressante pour certains et reposante pour dautres, elle ne laisse aucun espace à la dissimulation et projette le visiteur dans un vertigineux sentiment de vide et dabsence. Lumières artificielles tirant les dormeurs hors de la pénombre auxquelles ils sont habitués : gâchis énergétique concédé à lobsession sécuritaire, cest ici deux préoccupations contemporaines fondamentales qui se télescopent frontalement. |
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Comments
I also love how, on one side, you always have a human sleeping, and on another side, you have some deserted structure. They are two very different scenes that you draw parallels between beautifully.
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KenNiyAkKa
Eat your Ramen! I don't want to hear any words
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KenNiyAkKa
Eat your Ramen! I don't want to hear any words
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