Hexagone

Hexagone 2 — The Landscape Consumed

2000 – 2005

This large set of images is now part of the Hexagone corpus, where it forms the second section, entitled “The Landscape Consumed.” In these images Jürgen Nefzger moves away from the highly urbanised territory and towards places with low population density, even rural ones, showing us the other side of appearances: instead of what comes before the manufactured landscape, we are faced with uncertain images of it, resulting from the general takeover by the consumerist model. The consequences of progress can be read in highly developed, monetised and, finally polluted nature.

Volunteers cleaning up the oil spill on the shore at Pointe de Saint-Gildas, Loire-Atlantique, 2000
Oil refinery near Dunkirk, 2002
Abandoned petrol station, Héréchou, Gers, 2001
Farmhouse in ruins, La Péruse, Charente, 2005
Traffic sign used as a target by hunters, Gers, 2003
Public billboard, Urgosse, Gers, 2001
Minigolf in Châtignac, Charente, 2005
Hay silage wrapped in plastic, Gers, 2002
Cantaloupe field, Terraube, Gers, 2002
Fruit crates, Lectoure, Gers, 2002
Surroundings of the Gadoues landfill, La Crau, Bouches-du-Rhône, 2001
Self-portrait, illegal dump near Tarbes, 2003