Luc Chery
Les Habitats
2003
The exhibition "Les Habitats - Ode to the refugee camps" shows the works of the french photographer Luc Chery. Of the 20 photographs, half were taken in Gaza and the other half in Bordeaux. The photographs are of temporary structures, such as tents, shacks or other spaces enclosed by cloth or plastic sheeting. of the pictures taken in Gaza, not all were actually taken in refugee camps. The other half of the photos, which were taken in Bordeaux, show the assemblages from discarded materials that he has put together in the course of the past years. He used old plastic, fabric as well as furniture parts to construct small living spaces. As the exhibition presents photographs of refugee camps alongside miniatures built by Chery, it is sometimes hard to differentiate between Gaza and Bordeaux. Both convey a sense of confinement to an enclosed space.
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