Stéphanie Lacombe

HYPER LIFE

8,00 €

2021

Format 11 cm x 15,5 cm

64 pages

French

978-2-919077-62-5

Présentation

The first thing I do when I arrive in a region I don't know is go shopping to get to know the local culture. Here, I had to travel about 40 kilometres to find one. So I changed my mind, and got down to work, investigating, talking to the locals to understand the history of the area. One name kept coming up in the mouths of those I interviewed, and that word was Intermarché, and it became the obvious answer to most of my questions: "It's got everything you need, even a merry-go-round for the kids. "We meet there at night for drinks in the car park. "That's the only thing here." "I go there to meet people." "She'll end up as a cashier at Inter." In the eyes of many residents, the supermarket seemed to be the "cultural centre" of the region, the focal point for everyone, just like the village square used to be. People used to meet there to chat, just as they used to after church. The Super U has replaced the church and the cashier the priest. I look at the Facebook page for this Intermarché, it has 3,000 subscribers, even though it's in a town with 1,800 inhabitants. [...]