"It is in the anonymity of the non-place that the community of human destinies is experienced in solitude."- Marc Augé (Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Paris, Seuil, 1992)
For his upcoming solo exhibition at Danysz Gallery, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils develops a new body of work through the lens of Non-Places, as defined by anthropologist Marc Augé: spaces of transit that structure everyday life while remaining largely anonymous. Paris is approached here not as a symbolic or historical construct, but as a city experienced through movement, through fragments, passages, and everyday transitions.
The exhibition focuses on subways and trains as contemporary non places. In Paris, these underground and in between environments generate a particular intensity, moments suspended between arrival and departure, solitude and proximity, routine and chance encounters. These fleeting intervals, Parisian moments lived in motion, form the emotional and conceptual core of the project.
