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Pardonnez nos enfances

Photographic essay on the places of my childhood

In 2007, as I was finishing my college studies, I decided to go back to photograph the SPACES where I grew up: my home - up until 14 - and my school. Funny how 15 years seemed such a long time back then :)

Both experiences were quite strong and it came out on the pictures. Funny also I had Tugstene film (quite by chance, both times) and the blue tint gives the images an aura of the past, I feel.

It was really the details that were strongest. The pattern of the pavement, the garbage can, the white plastic benches we threw inside the pool still there, the precise places we used to play with the kids in the block (the borders of the stairs, of the grass), a door I couldn´t open one day for I was too small and it was too heavy, ...


A very melancholic survey.

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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