Meeting with Amélie Landry
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days 2021, Amélie Landry is invited by the Archives nationales de France to present the work she carried out from 2019 to 2021 at the Ambroise Croizat socio-cultural center in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine as part of a residency of photography organised with the support of the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.
“What do we keep from our elders? When I arrived in Pierrefitte, this is a question I asked myself. When you don’t live in a working-class suburb, you have a billion images, each one more contradictory than the last. It is the risk to maintain some clichés. It is besides one of the rare zones about which all the French population maintains firmly fixed points of view, without however knowing it. Here, the strength of the collective imagery is without common measure..”
By crossing family photos, city archives and state speeches on suburbs, Amélie Landry questions the notion of territory, between personal stories, the evolution of the city of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine and French national urban policy.
“From the great to the small history: the dialogue between these documents is a reading proposal of reading of these territories, monsters of complexity and full of life.“.
Meeting with Amélie Landry
Archives nationales de France
59 rue Guynemer 93383 Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
September 18, 2021 – from 2 to 6 pm
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Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare, 75009 Paris
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