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isabelle hayeur

Uprooted, 2012, 10:45, HD http://vimeo.com/ailleurs/uprooted

construction | place by isabelle hayeur

Recent technological changes have transformed natural and rural environments to the point of producing uniform, ever-more polluted environments in their stead. These are territories fashioned by man: peripheries of North American cities, strangely alike from one to the next in that none of them feels like somewhere. Their excessively wide spaces, standardised and shapeless, generate a sense of unease. Urban upheavals can turn the most familiar locale into an unrecognisable, anonymous, even forbidding place. On this blank slate, local memory is forever erased. –

sprawl anonymity destruction

Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts and Magdal Hayeur.

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