The Urbanus series shows, as vestiges of an ancient civilisation which is however still ours, building facades, shelters in Berlin, Amsterdam, Marseille, stored tyres depicting a recurrent motif on a background of corrugated sheets of mobile offices. Only the traces remain behind a human.

Extract from the text by Vanessa Morisset, Art Critic and Philosopher at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Série Urbanus N°VI
bannière GE 2015

Iseult Labote’s photographic tableaux reveal a world of religiosity at the heart of transitory spaces—construction sites, warehouses, and factories—destined for the ephemeral and for disappearing. Iseult Labote thus continually demonstrates the power and involuntary aesthetic of industrial buildings, deserted by any human presence. Of Man, only traces remain.

(excerpt from a text by V. Morisset, art critic and philosopher at the Centre Pompidou)

URBANUS n°VI, 1999
125 x 185 cm
C-print, diasec

URBANUS n°XV, 1999
125 x 185 cm
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URBANUS n°XIV, 1999
125 x 185 cm
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URBANUS n°XIII, 1999
125 x 185 cm
C-print, diasec

URBANUS n°I, 2002
185 x 120 cm
C-print, diasec