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Intérieurs, Gennevilliers
2001
Mathieu Pernot
Photography
81,5 x 114,5 cm
Gelatin-silver print
“This project took place in buildings in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino district and Gennevilliers [outside Paris], just before they were demolished. Still furnished, these apartments seem to have been the backdrop to some dramatic event, the scene of a crime, whose witnesses must have fled in a hurry. Here, a panoramic view of Manhattan forms the wallpaper. Now in tatters, the visual subterfuge is revealed,” wrote Mathieu Pernot in L’Etat des lieux, 779/SFP, 2004.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
“This project took place in buildings in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino district and Gennevilliers [outside Paris], just before they were demolished. Still furnished, these apartments seem to have been the backdrop to some dramatic event, the scene of a crime, whose witnesses must have fled in a hurry. Here, a panoramic view of Manhattan forms the wallpaper. Now in tatters, the visual subterfuge is revealed,” wrote Mathieu Pernot in L’Etat des lieux, 779/SFP, 2004.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Mathieu Pernot
France
Born in 1970
Born 1970 in Fréjus.
Lives and works in Paris and Barcelone.
Immediately after graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, in 1996, Pernot began taking pictures of Romani populations and then focused on the themes of destruction, annihilation and displacement. At the crossroads of history, sociology and political analysis, he works in series, all successive expressions of analytical views on identity, memory, alienation and the notion of progress.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Paris and Barcelone.
Immediately after graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, in 1996, Pernot began taking pictures of Romani populations and then focused on the themes of destruction, annihilation and displacement. At the crossroads of history, sociology and political analysis, he works in series, all successive expressions of analytical views on identity, memory, alienation and the notion of progress.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
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Mathieu Pernot
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