For several years, Julien Chatelin has been working on issues related to urbanization and the cyclical transformations of our environments. This work, Promised Lands, brings together to date four series respectively carried out in Egypt, Detroit, Norilsk in Siberia and China, with China West.
In western China, the rapid pace of economic development is creating a new period of transformation. The country’s topography is radically redefined and, with it, the distribution of populations, forced to migrate from rural areas to large newly constructed mega-cities.
At the edge of these new cities, the semi-desert landscapes evoke a deep ambivalence, between fertility and sterility, promise and nothingness. China West explores the interstices between nature and urbanization: it is in this space that the changes at work are most clearly revealed.
Julien Chatelin – China West
from June 27th to September 7th.
1CUBE Gallery at AZA Studio
34, boulevard de la Libération
13001 Marseille
www.1cube.art
