{"id":5845,"date":"2025-08-02T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2025-08-02T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:55:30","slug":"city-extracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/?p=5845","title":{"rendered":"City Extracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: #000000;\">This photographic series explores the eerie intersection between the familiar and the uncanny. Drawing from real architectural details and public objects found across Geneva, each image transposes these mundane elements into liminal, deserted spaces reminiscent of the digital mythos of the \u00abBackrooms\u00bb.<br \/><br \/>By isolating symbols of urban infrastructure\u2014a mailbox, a recycling container, a public bench, a flag\u2014within sterile, overlit environments stripped of context, the work disorients perception. What once served clear civic functions now floats in a suspended space, stripped of purpose yet heavy with meaning.<br \/><br \/>These images question our relationship to public space, memory, and place-making. They invite us to reimagine how collective infrastructure can evoke intimacy or estrangement, nostalgia or unease. The project stands at the crossroads of documentary, speculative fiction, and urban archeology\u2014rendering the banal uncanny and the everyday strange.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5847\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Series-started-350x197.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"background: #000000;\">Cette s\u00e9rie photographique explore la zone trouble entre le familier et l\u2019\u00e9trange. En puisant dans des \u00e9l\u00e9ments architecturaux et des objets publics r\u00e9els trouv\u00e9s dans la ville de Gen\u00e8ve, chaque image transpose ces artefacts urbains dans des espaces liminaux, d\u00e9sert\u00e9s, inspir\u00e9s de l\u2019esth\u00e9tique num\u00e9rique des \u00abBackrooms\u00bb.<br \/><br \/>En isolant des symboles de l\u2019infrastructure citadine \u2014 une bo\u00eete aux lettres, un conteneur de tri, un banc public, un drapeau \u2014 dans des environnements st\u00e9riles, sur\u00e9clair\u00e9s et vid\u00e9s de leur contexte, le travail brouille les rep\u00e8res. Ce qui avait autrefois une fonction claire devient flottant, sans but apparent mais charg\u00e9 de sens.<br \/><br \/>Ces images interrogent notre rapport \u00e0 l\u2019espace public, \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire et \u00e0 la fabrique des lieux. Elles nous invitent \u00e0 reconsid\u00e9rer la mani\u00e8re dont les infrastructures collectives peuvent \u00e9voquer l\u2019intimit\u00e9 ou l\u2019\u00e9tranget\u00e9, la nostalgie ou le malaise. Ce projet se situe \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e du documentaire, de la fiction sp\u00e9culative et de l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie urbaine \u2014 rendant l\u2019ordinaire inqui\u00e9tant, et le quotidien \u00e9trange.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This photographic series explores the eerie intersection between the familiar and the uncanny. Drawing from real architectural details and public objects found across Geneva, each image transposes these mundane elements&hellip; <span class=\"more-link\">la suite<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,216,2,13],"tags":[241,215,250,40],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aiarvr","category-design","category-everything","category-photo","tag-241","tag-design","tag-liminal","tag-photo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lim-00.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5853,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elvisss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}