Ahmedabad, population 5 million, a vast and legendary city of excess and abundance, doesn’t easily open up.
Only at nightfall was Frédéric Delangle able to enter into its silence and near meditative calm, a brief moment of serenity when the modern world grants a few hours of rest before the dawn for a new day of madness.
Stopped in its tracks, the city reveals the magnificence and splendors of a bygone era, where the abandoned buildings in the historical city center—19th century wooden houses and superb Anglo-Indian Art-Deco architecture—are gradually giving way to new concrete and metal structures.
This is a mysterious place, where modernity has yet to overtake the past, as they stand side-by-side.
In his work, Frédéric Delangle helps viewers penetrate into this labyrinth as into a history book, like a voyage back in time where different eras overlap and intertwine.
The night lights and the nonending streets are reminiscent of a film set, while the wandering shadows in this sleeping city take us into the fantasy and the nostalgia of an eternal city lost for ever .
Frédéric Delangle : Ahmedabad – No life last night
23.11 – 26.11.12
ST-ART 2012
Parc des Expositions
67000 Strasbourg-Wacken – France
