Toulouse-Lautrec Museum construction site, Albi, 2011
From yesterday to today, men are builders of this time dear to the photographer. On the renovation site of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, he literally suspends his flight as concrete and steel come to top the Albigensian brick of the old bishop’s palace. Barely revealed by the light, the mixture of materials takes place in a myriad of unexpected tones. Much more than a restoration, this mortar is a welding, a bridge of several centuries that unites bold contemporary architecture with sacred medieval construction. Again, and again, it is all about paradoxical encounters and brief freeze-frame stories.
Series realized from 2003/2011 at the initiative of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum of Albi, Tarn (France)
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