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 Nowhere City. 

« A city made up of all sort of things that we all are familiar with, but altogether these things form a city that resembles no other, to the extent that one may wonder wether this actually is a city…. »

When visiting Los Angeles for the first time, one is struck by the unknown urban form he or she encounters. It demands time and several visits to apprehend this megacity made of single family houses and orange tree gardens, a gigantic suburb built in less than a century after a singular urban model.

« Ex centric », Los Angeles defies the traditional hallmarks of European and American city planning. It is extraordinary in size, limited by the ocean on one side and ceaselessly sprawling the desert on the other. The urban fabric seems boundless, a series of villages ignoring one another disjointed by freeways and miles long avenues. A fragmented space from which human presence seems to have faded away. One passes through Los Angeles from one point to another. The automobile was erected as symbol of existence in a city that does not care for strolling. It becomes a home, mobile and hermetic. Owning a car is owning the freedom to roam through this voided space. Along the avenues, the passer stares with daze at the profusion of hyperreality. Between the real and the virtual, the transient reality unsettles. You only see what you are willing to see. You chose to make sense of this gigantic urbanscape and set the limits of it. 

After studying photography for 3 years in ETPA in Toulouse, she pursued Architecture School in Bordeaux.

During 5 years of Architecture studies, her background in Photography and her on going practice of this medium lead her to question the interrelation existing between these two disciplines and the role of the photographic image in the representation of Architecture.

She has been working as a photographer in collaboration with several Architectures agencies mostly based in the south west of France. Besides commissioned work, she dedicates her personal photography to several ongoing projects, all of them revolving to the same matters of landscape and its interrelation to built environment.

© text and pictures by Agnès Clotis

Agnès Clotis The nowhere city ,