La Valleé électrique

A great deal of formal information is directly linked to the specific spaces of production and machinery. In contrast to the machine hall, a confined space comparable to a house, the transformer is presented as an organ of transmission, an open-air skeleton extended by pylons and cables, silhouettes of trees and steel lines streaking the horizon. What is the result of the sum of these images, a procession of power stations in the landscape? A history of techniques and architectural styles? Above all, it's a question of the way we look at and perceive nature... Looking at and pointing out the machines that produce energy means making visible, by contrast, the backdrop, an entropic landscape, natural sites bearing the mark of their gradual mutation.