Photographic print
Unique
19 7/10 × 20 9/10 in
2021
660€ Payable in 3 installments free of charge for under 31
An architecture enthusiast, Clément Guillaume is particularly interested in the different forms of life that can emerge from a place, the organicity that may not have been foreseen at the outset, or, on the contrary, the power with which man manages to tame his territory. The eternal battle of the natural vs. the cultural, sometimes resolved by harmony, other times by the dissonance of the bodies involved - it's up to the viewer to decide.
Abandoned since 1990, unsuccessfully put up for sale for 1 symbolic franc in 1992, the ski jump has recently been the subject of a rehabilitation project supported by the municipality and led by a local lawyer wishing to turn it into a cultural venue.
"I capture images all the time. Housing projects, regional architecture, landscapes, ruins and camping grounds, they all tell stories that touch me. I like to trigger interest in what seems ugly or mundane, to produce images that incite reflection, allowing us to understand the world and its complexity." Clément Guillaume