Frontiers, markers, passages
The Anterooms
Philippe Bazin's work was carried out during the summer of 2008 among Chechen refugees living in Polish shelters and retention centres. It is accompanied by the philosophical work that Christiane Vollaire presents in her text "The Middle of Nowhere". The photographs do not show the people, and the text does not present the places.
The Middle of Nowhere
Christiane VOLLAIRE
11 November 2009
The photographs do not show the people themselves, nor does the text present the locations. But the people’s words are marked by the places, in the same way that the places, though empty in the images, are marked by the people. And the work grew out of this joint presence, or what the sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad would have called a "double absence".