Eng.

Panorama is born with a very specific mission: to help create and reinforce a global consciousness regarding the different challenges we as a society face in terms of landscape and territory.

For that reason, we’ve decided to create this platform to join together artistic projects with didactic content to attempt to reach, in the easiest and most comprehensive way, this reflexion to a large part of the society.

We believe that artistic projects accompanied by specialized texts are the best tool for any person, even those who haven’t  shown interest in this subjects before, to understand how as a society we need to reflect on our relationship with landscape and territory.

With this idea Panorama aims to become a big archive where anyone can meet and consult the different authors regarding this matters. And what’s also important, to contemplate them from different points of view.

 

Cast.

Panorama nace con una misión muy concreta: ayudar a crear/reforzar una conciencia global sobre los distintos retos que tenemos como sociedad en relación al territorio y al paisaje.

Para ello, hemos decidido crear esta plataforma que aglutina proyectos artísticos con contenidos didácticos para intentar hacer llegar, de la manera más fácil y entendedora posible, esta reflexión a un amplio conjunto de la sociedad.

Creemos que los proyectos artísticos acompañados de textos especializados son la mejor herramienta para que cualquier persona, aunque nunca antes se haya interesado por estos temas, pueda comprender que como sociedad tenemos que hacer una reflexión sobre nuestra relación con el territorio y el paisaje.

Panorama pretende con esta idea convertirse en un gran archivo donde cualquiera pueda conocer y consultar los distintos autores que trabajan en torno a estas cuestiones. Y lo que también es muy importante, contemplarlas desde distintos puntos de vista.

 

Cat.

Panorama neix amb un objectiu molt concret: ajudar a crear/reforçar una consciència global sobre els diferents reptes que tenim com a societat en relació al territori i al paisatge.

Per això, hem decidit aquesta plataforma que aglutina projectes artístics amb continguts didàctics per intentar fer arribar, de la manera més fàcil y comprensible possible, aquesta reflexió a un ampli conjunt de la societat.

Creiem que els projectes artístics acompanyats de textos especialitzats son la millor eina per a que qualsevol persona, tot i que no s’hagi interessat mai abans per aquests temes, pugui comprendre que com a societat hem de fer una reflexió sobre la nostre relació amb el territori i el paisatge.

Panorama pretén amb aquesta idea convertir-se en un gran arxiu on qualsevol pugui conèixer i consultar els diversos autors que treballen a l’entorn d’aquestes qüestions. I el que també és molt important, contemplar-les des de diferents punts de vista.

 

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Aire d’accueil – non exhaustive study of the imagination’s potential

[Aire d’accueil – inventaire non exhaustif des pouvoirs de l’imagination]

They are said to be « welcoming » [d’accueil]. These sites are, according to the law, compulsory in all French municipalities of more than 5,000 inhabitants and must allow the « Travellers » to halt according to their route plans. Antoine Le Roux addressed them as facts. Frontally and without light effect. He confronts us with spaces without any distinctive sign, without identity. Enclosed, made of concrete, and at the same time enigmatic. Documenting by refraining from interpreting or commenting, showing by confronting us with questions rather than demonstrations that photography is incapable of carrying out, such is the strictly photographic purpose of this possible inventory of these « sites ».

This position of the photographer who disappears but is nevertheless very present brings us back to a problem of definition. What are these empty spaces, as if on hold, which are neither fallow nor abandoned land, rather spaces not yet invested ?

« Area » [aire], takes us back to a mathematical problematic and the calculation of surfaces, the most famous of which remains « squaring the circle ». « Welcome », according to the dictionary, means « a ceremony or service directed at a newcomer, generally consisting in welcoming him and helping him in his integration or his proceedings ». We have some difficulty in making these definitions match with the images made by Antoine Le Roux. Wouldn’t they rather refer to the inadequacy of these places with their official attribution ?

Christian Caujolle

Born in 1984, Antoine Le Roux decides to focus on photography after a BA in literature. Graduated from Louis-Lumière National school for photography, film and sound engineering, in Paris, he has been pursuing for several years a large scale project about romani societies. In this context, he started to explore the visual archives of roma writer Matéo Maximoff back in 2014, which led to publications and will result in upcoming exhibitions. His project Aire d’accueil was shown for the first time as part of an academic work and again in 2018 as part of the « Roma Season » held in Paris.

A the crossroads of a documentary and poetic approach, delving into the visible layers of the places where we live, Antoine Le Roux repeatedly addresses the notion of memory while exploring the meaning of our everyday landscape. Because it seems that the small evidences left by our previous lineages are difficult to decode, when it is often within them, in all quietness, that the turmoil of the world resounds the most.

© text by Christian Caujolle / pictures by Antoine Leroux

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