Where one has the impression of walking far from the urban, and seeing the emergence of constructed pockets, annexed spaces of the city, UFO attempts … Questioning their presence and their fences, having fun with their strange aesthetic.
Reach the north of Marseille by the coast, an eventful path – changing areas and remains, the sounds of the world, the call of the departing ferry and the crash of the automobile. It is trying but beautiful for the senses, these roadsides that are not made for walking …
From the pretty station, we escape diagonally from Miramas, quickly the names of the paths resonate with the old, we meet a few horses or bodies to be repaired. There will be a shepherd there, who like us will take the road to Grans …
From the Place des Aires, airy between land and sea, to the Glacière, suffocated by civilized space. Between the beginning and the end of this story, let’s discover hidden valleys, where a few sounds resonate, to make unusual encounters where few people venture.
Gardanne – Meyreuil
Along the road, let’s go back through history … Agricultural stories, stories of ancient villages that have become passages, between old castles and new paths. Let’s observe how man has transformed the landscape, how urbanization unfolds in these beautiful plains and valleys that are still unspoiled.
Aix TGV – Vitrolles
From a hyper-place concentrated in automobile flows and people, let us abandon ourselves to the traces of ancient roads, bauxite and life after fires. We walk from a magnificent haunted desert to an oasis of ocher freshness, Cadière will lead us to the city: Green Vitrolles.
He graduated from the National School of Photography in Arles. He is interested in changing landscapes, in rural areas (commissioned by the Landscape Photographic Observatory) as well as in Mediterranean metropolises (Dos à la mer, promenade en Méditerranée urbaine, Filigranes, 2009). Since 2012, he has been exploring city-nature relationships (Marseille, ville sauvage, Actes Sud 2012 and GeumUrbanum, Filigranes, 2013) and the peri-urban areas of the Marseille metropolis: as part of Marseille Provence 2013, in collaboration with Bertrand Stofleth, he produces Paysage Used, Landscape Photographic Observatory since GR2013 thanks to a public order for photographs from the National Center for Plastic Arts (CNAP).Since 2016, he has been producing a series of photographs of objects, gestures and agricultural landscapes in the Parisian conurbation: The principle of rurality, supported and assisted in documentary photography from the CNAP.
www.geoffroymathieu.com
Le Cabanon Vertical is a multidisciplinary association, combining applied arts, visual arts; experimenting with the potential relationship between artistic practice and social dialogue. She is interested in the place of inhabitants in public space, by highlighting the uses, real or potential, of places.
The design of projects involves careful observation of the context, the confrontation of points of view, in dialogue with the inhabitants. The sculptural creations are inspired by micro-architectures from vernacular culture, or create a new form of urban furniture, linked to the different uses and situations, in the unique human scale of a place.
http://www.cabanonvertical.com/
