Human work is only perfect in its fragment. This seems to be the adage Iseult Labote has chosen as a guiding principle for her photographs deeply rooted in the urban universe. Profoundly urban in their essence, construction sites are part of the banality of our environment. And yet, upon closer inspection, they are the last places where anarchy and chaos still reign, as if at the dawn of creation. It is at the heart of this emblematic urban magma that Iseult Labote wanders her camera like a gold prospector. On the lookout for unsuspected details, she knows how to await the exact moment when light will transform the material, restoring its primordial beauty.

Through the artist’s eye, plastics become precious metals, rusty boxes become gold ingots, as if transformed by a strange alchemy that reveals their hidden essence.

Nicole Kunz, art historian

REGLISSE n°I, 2008
125 x 185 cm
C-print, diasec

REGLISSE n°II, 2008
125 x 185 cm
C-print, diasec

REGLISSE n°III, 2008
C-print, diasec

In situ, Fondation Auer pour la Photographie, 2022