Sous-terre

Biographie

Antoine Lecharny was born in 1995 and lives in Paris. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle. He was awarded the Audi talents prize for the project Trou, triangle, ronc doucine et dissonance in 2020 and the "coup de coeur" of the Grand Prix Paris Match du photoreportage étudiant for the series À Deva, les roms ne sont pas nomades in 2019.
His series Comme un Lego was presented at the Boutographies in 2019.

Présentation

Under the earth, under the trees, under the pavements, ruins of synagogues and pits full of bones. What we see on the surface replaces what we can no longer see. A city returned to its banality. The trees and snow-covered streets prolong the erasure of bodies and names. Here, everything separates me from the depth of the place. The grasses are no longer burnt, the bullets have disappeared and the upturned earth seems hardened into silence. Of the thousands of Jewish children, women and men forcibly taken to the hills of the city to be shot in the back of the head and piled on top of the naked bodies of those who came before them, there is virtually no trace left. No monuments, no repentance. Only an engraved stone standing among the brambles, hidden from view, escapes obliteration.