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Ceci tuera cela
by Indira Béraud
*« Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville
Change plus vite, hélas ! Que le cœur d’un mortel) »*
Le Cygne, Charles Baudelaire (to Victor Hugo), 1861.
Perched on the top floor of a repurposed factory in Aubervilliers, Eliott Paquet’s exhibition ‘Ceci tuera cela’ overlooks Paris in its entirety. Like a love letter left at its doorstep, its sincerity is touching yet scathing, leaving a bitter aftertaste, like sour milk. It’s a harsh love letter, depicting a pitiless portrait of a capital in brutal flux, whose opulent beauty seeks to remain exclusive. The dynamics of gentrification in Greater Paris displace those who seek refuge there. Its hallmark architecture is being demolished in favour of new aesthetic and functional standards, often dictated by profitability.…
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Ceci tuera cela
by Indira Béraud
*« Le vieux Paris n’est plus (la forme d’une ville
Change plus vite, hélas ! Que le cœur d’un mortel) »*
Le Cygne, Charles Baudelaire (to Victor Hugo), 1861.
Perched on the top floor of a repurposed factory in Aubervilliers, Eliott Paquet’s exhibition ‘Ceci tuera cela’ overlooks Paris in its entirety. Like a love letter left at its doorstep, its sincerity is touching yet scathing, leaving a bitter aftertaste, like sour milk. It’s a harsh love letter, depicting a pitiless portrait of a capital in brutal flux, whose opulent beauty seeks to remain exclusive. The dynamics of gentrification in Greater Paris displace those who seek refuge there. Its hallmark architecture is being demolished in favour of new aesthetic and functional standards, often dictated by profitability.…
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