© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

© Valérie Anex

Valérie Anex

Éditions d'Uqbar

Ghost estates

28,00 € Buy online

2011

Format 25,5 x 20 cm

84 pages

French-English

978-2839911696

Présentation

The National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis NIRSA defines a ghost estate as a development of ten houses or more in which fifty per cent or less of homes are occupied or completed. In October 2010, according to official estimates, there were 2846 ghost estates and more than 350 000 vacant homes throughout the Republic of Ireland.

Faced with the vestiges of prosperity, Valérie Anex directs her gaze to the facades, hedges, fences and promotional signs. She surveys the premises, attentive to the architecture and its direct links with territorial development policies. Through the sense of framing and reiteration, then the images and their articulation with the text, the book Ghost Estates highlights the process of disintegration of new houses and the simulation of rubble. It thus evokes the dynamic that goes from fetishized merchandise to the bankruptcy of an economic system.

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