At the beginning of the tourism season, a multitude of wild buildings are blooming on the sand, and, just during the summer, they will welcome beach bars and restaurants.
Once the season is closed, only ghosts are stilling in these huge spaces. Skeletons of umbrellas, armchairs ripped open, huts dismantled with curtains torn, abandoned waste make this landscape look like desolation and end of the world in the middle of which one can see some rare silhouettes.
These abandoned places exert a fascination on me that drives me to immortalize them, but beyond that, they are conducive to the expression of my artistic approach. The objective of this series is double:
On the one hand, to account for the aestheticism and the force that emerge from these deserted places, exacerbating the play of light and shadow, the textures, by making palpable the silence that encompasses those places where time seems to be stopped. On the other hand, this series permits me to denounce the negative effects of uncontrolled tourism development on natural landscape with high environmental value and thus challenges the viewer on their future.
Virginie Caquot
