What have the wrecks to say about our destiny? Francesca Piqueras went to Tierra Del Fuego and Cap Vert to try to expose the secret of these metal giants, imprisonned in the sand, and slowly being reduced to crumbs by rust. This series, titled Après la fin, being presented by the Galérie de l’Europe (Paris 6) from 16th March to 6th May, is a new chapter in the artistic project that the photographer has been conducting for several years on decaying and deserted marine architecture.
After the abandoned military structures of the French and English coasts, the dismantled cargo ships in Bangladesh, the oil rigs in Scotland, Francesca Piqueras became interested again in the wrecks, that she had already photographed superbly in Mauritania (L’architecture du silence, 2012).
The images that she is presenting at the Galérie de l’Europe are intriguing as much for their flawless aesthetic as their metaphoric force. By showing us the power of a nature that digests and reduces to nothing these mechanical monsters, Francesca Piqueras questions us about the fragility of human endeavour and the vanity of the industrial era. As suggested by the title, this series invites the turning of a page. That of a civilisation greedy with the power of its machines and against which, with global warming and rising sea levels, the elements will inexorably return.
Francesca Piqueras, Après la fin
From 16th March to 6th May 2017
Galerie de l’Europe
55 rue de Seine
75006 Paris
France
http://www.galerie-europe.com
