Everyone, passing in front of a partly demolished building, revealing a floor where we can guess an old kitchen thanks to the earthenware still hanging on the walls, or even a living room still retaining its fireplace, gets lost in conjectures, fantasizing , imagines characters and a past, now vanished, banal life, of which these only vestiges still bear witness. Alone?
Not sure, because a new concept in vogue on social networks, urbex, is bringing these places back to life. Thanks to photographs and videos taken by a whole army of amateur photographers, who go to these abandoned places, exchange addresses and spots, in France and abroad.
Castles, disused factories, warehouses, buildings and houses, sometimes reputed to be haunted, circulate and receive visits from these nostalgic researchers of a still recent past. Images show sheets and documents left on a desk, clothes hanging on the back of a chair, a saucepan on a stove, a half-unmade bed, a car wreck housing a bird’s nest, a battle lost in advance between man and nature which regains its rights.
Among these urbex photographers and videographers, a Langonese stands out with several thousand subscribers on her account, Melurbex 13. Her real name, Mélanie Dardin, the artist has hung around thirty of her photographs, with comments and explanatory legends, at the tourist office and at the Gargantua space media library, for the month of January.
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