As an immersion in the construction landscape, this project invites to investigate the manufactured territory and to question ourselves on our future world through the subject of materials, their origins, their reuse and their environmental impact.
Focused on earth, this project explores more precisely the various potentials of this local raw substance available in large quantity in the constructions sites. Inspired by Lavoisier’s idea that “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed” , this research proposes to enhance and value this material as a living and creative body. In this sense, by capturing these landscapes with handcrafted clay-made films, the subject becomes the object as a substantial fragment of reality.
This project was also the opportunity to dare and invent sensitive explorations by using pigments made out of their soils to print these visual explorations. Due to its handcrafted approach and affinity with the light-sensitive photographic process, the denomination ‘Terragraphy’ has been invented to describe this practice that reveals each framed landscape through his own materiality.