Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
dal 13/3/2013 al 26/4/2013
Segnalato da
13/3/2013
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich
The exhibition will show a selection of large-format photographs from the artists' first series, The Ruins of Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, has become a symbol a deindustrialization, where a former industrial capital for the majority of the 20th century has suffered an unprecedented rapid decline. Its shuttered civic halls, schools, train stations, working-class homes, and hotels have been crumbling over the past 50 years, as the manufacturing that peopled and financed the city halted. Seeing ruins as "visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension," Marchand and Meffre set out to fully document over a five year period the city center's disintegration. Their photographs are haunting, capturing a dystopian scene that resembles a stage set from a science fiction film. However, the photographs are more than just documents of detritus and relinquished spaces. They are testimonies of abandoned narratives. Marchand and Meffre have produced a body of work that objectively looks at "the volatile result of the end of an era." (Image: Michigan Central Station)