The world seen from the construction site

Series of 21 digital photographs.

14 November 2021 Benoît Labourdette  3 min

What is the city about? To look at the world? Or to be this world that looks at itself and creates itself by looking at itself?

The building that houses the editorial office of Le Monde, which until recently was under construction, is located next to three new construction sites: a train station, a rainwater evacuation system and a new shopping center. These worlds that are made, that are informed, these imaginary worlds that become our real world. These powers that are embodied by the invented information that, once transmitted and diffused, makes us believe that it is reality, and by this effect bends the reality of others to its fantasy, its imaginary power. Power of the powerful over the weak, under the cover of a good conscience, since those who arrogate the place of the masters make us believe that reality functions with domination: economic, patriarchal, ethnic, political... all these fictions that lock us up, transform the real when they are not.

Reality could be quite different, if we no longer believed in these imposed fictions. In reality, all these constructions are empty and without subject. Without any other subject than an infinite diffraction of powers of two, perpetual and perpetuated of the same unreality, which pretends to be reality. And the digital can come to multiply these dominations, as alpha and omega of the illusion, which becomes our real without us seeing it. Or not, if we decide to free ourselves, to touch our existence, as subjects of ourselves.

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The world seen from the construction site - 1 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 2 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 3 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 4 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 5 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 6 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 7 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 8 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 9 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 10 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 11 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 12 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 13 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 14 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 15 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 16 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 17 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 18 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 19 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 20 © Benoît Labourdette 2021. The world seen from the construction site - 21 © Benoît Labourdette 2021.

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