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* english follows ~ « Structures of Power », qui débute en 2008, est une série de photographies de paysages postindustriels à grande échelle. La collection d’images est l’écho de thèmes de désindustrialisation, de consommateurisme déchainé et du renversement de l’équilibre commercial. L’observateur est amené à imaginer les segments manquants du paysage parsemé de bâtisses abandonnées ou désaffectées, ainsi que les tendances historiques sociales et/ou économiques qui ont mené à la construction, la réussite, l’échec et l’ultime détérioration du bâtiment. | "Structures of Power" is a series of large-scale, post-industrial landscape photographs which began in 2008. The collection of images echoes themes of deindustrialization, reversing balances of trade, and rampant consumerism. It challenges the viewer to fill in the blanks remaining in a landscape littered with disused or abandoned structures and what historic social and/or economic trends gave rise to the structure's creation, success, failure, and ultimate decay.
At the fulcrum between supply and demand, the artwork ponders on one side the decline of a Western workforce in the manufacturing of actual physical objects such as cars, ships, machine tools, and grain, while on the other side; the subsequent rise of the service economy. The images suggest that this balance is at least partially responsible for a trend where loss of manufacturing in the developed world leads to a society less bound to the realities of the physical world. A world where obsolescence is gospel, trends are ephemeral, and where even the structures of economic power fall victim to its whims and are rendered disposable. "By photographing spaces that have been left disused and vacant by this shift, I hope to make people think about some of the challenging social and economic consequences that come with it, like negative trade balances and the rise of a culture that values image over utility and superficial comfort over industry." - Tim Power
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