Julien CHAPSAL
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This work comes out of a residency in the working class Toulouse neighbourhood of Le Mirail in spring 2013, at the invitation of the Château d’Eau photography centre. I found myself drawn both to the built environment and the local youth. To the former because it’s so distinctive, so imbued with a unique history and yet so typical of what are commonly called housing estates. And to the latter because – considered, like everywhere else, as a collective, stereotyped, near-abstract entity – they focus all sorts of issues and embody the future. So I strolled and explored slab blocks, walkways and shortcuts, looking for unexpected nooks and crannies. These are probably the most curious, not to say disturbing, features that have stayed with me. At the same time I set out to make contact with the 18-25 year olds, people entering adult life. I asked for volunteers to take me to places especially important to them, where they liked to hang out. Then I had them pose, but without looking at me, immersed rather in their inner privacy. I set up a dialogue between the two groups of images. A specific, insistently present environment, from which these young people, while very much flesh and blood, seem almost absent, on standby – becoming.
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