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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The territory, its limit.
Photographs takes place in a precise and defined territory. The second and last belt of Brussels’ urbanization. It talks about the end of the city and its limits. Despite its precise administrative boundaries, Its territory remain undefined. Photographs take place on both side of the line, in this soft, diffuse, unprecise area where urban landscape is diluted in a artificial nature, controlled by men.

The divide.
Precisely around these limits, urban and nature collide. The social, functional and spatial aberrations specific to each of these models are revealed. This creates urban situations where buildings, infrastructure and public space clash. These confrontations are materialized in urban landscape by infrastructures superpo- sitions, building juxtapositions, scales breacks, volumes games in various forms and materials. It contributes to the space complexity and induces strong and even violent visual contrasts.

The dystopia.
Beyond these urban and architectural aspects, I photograph empty neighbor- hoods without inhabitants.
Occupants have left their dormitory city, roads suddenly stop, nature struggles. These peri-urban places are like so many others, they are timeless. Brussels’ identity disappears.

I am an architect and a self taught photographer based in Brussels. I worked as an architect in several renowned architectural office before dedicated myself to photography. Now, i split my time between commission works for architectural offices and a personnal photographic practise.

Through my photographies, i aim to question city density, urban territory, its boundaries in regard to urbanization and urban sprawling.

I mainly work in large format film photography.

© text and pictures by Séverin Malaud

Séverin Malaud Brussels’s dilution ,