Hexagone

Hexagone 1 — The Manufactured Landscape

1995 – 2001

Made between 1995 and 2001 and published as the first part of Hexagone with the title “The Manufactured Landscape,” this section brings together images that comprise a portrait of modern urban life. From the fall of the housing blocks to the blossoming of detached houses, from the development of the new towns to the construction of major ensembles in tourist zones, Jürgen Nefzger takes us around a France that is not very comely. The manufactured dimension of the landscape sometimes verges on factitiousness: several images seem disconcertingly unreal, and yet it is all really there, witness to this reality that we are building for ourselves.

M.R.

Les Jardins de l'Europe, attraction at the Futuroscope theme park, Poitiers, 1996
La Grande-Motte holiday resort, 1996
Shopping mall near Montpellier, 1996
Nursery school, Cergy, 2001
Kids in the street, Cergy, 2001
The “Cloud Towers” (Tours Nuages), Nanterre, 1996
Roundabout behind a shopping centre, Val-d'Oise, 2000
Shopping centre, Val-d'Oise, 2000
Housing estate, Cergy-Pontoise, 2000
Panoramic view of the new town of Cergy-Pontoise seen from a water tower, 2000
Housing estate seen from the Butte des Châtaigniers, Argenteuil, 2000
Lake in a business park, Cergy-Pontoise, 2000