The Birth of Megalopolis

MEGALOPOLIS is a project that has occupied me for many years.

It is a meta-project around the city and memory that I explore through the use of several mediums such as photography, film, editing, computer-generated images, point clouds and now AI.

The latent space of artificial imagination is a terrain of exploration conducive to wandering like a city stroller who lets himself be carried away by the urban flow.

In cities, different temporalities and memories circulate and overlap. Individual memories recorded in a short time coexist with those of a long time sedimented in the stones of the streets.

Each epoch dreams of the next.

We live in a certain way in the dream of our ancestors and architecture represents a precipitate of these ancient collective dreams.

Each generation finds itself caught between dreams of emancipation that have spanned the history of our cities: the French Revolution and the Paris Commune are testimony to this.

But each of them is also locked in daily considerations specific to the hell of consumption.

Between the two there is a threshold that every urban inhabitant has more or less experienced one day: the spleen. It is a place of waiting, a buffer zone, where the stroller looks at the ruins of the city in a sort of contemplative state.

In this allegorical look, time is both turned towards the past, observing a world in ruins, but also towards the future because in these ruins there is also all the potential of a new world.

The Birth of Megalopolis offers wandering in these different states that exist in a city: Ideal, Hell and Spleen.

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