PANAMERA

When he moved to the french capital to pursue a professional career in photography, Younès Klouche started to photograph the larger area of the city to document an important period from his life. Eventually this body of image grew to be a stand-alone project called Panamera. The territory of Paris is under an active process of growing out of its old frontiers which are still delimited by an aging controlled-access ring road. Tied by a serie of futuristic public transportation lines, this global project called "Le Grand Paris" aims for a new colossal and fully functioning Metropol. This form of city planning goes hand in hand with both gentrification and the emptying of former industrial areas. Behind this promise of a utopian urbanist ecosystem lies a neoliberalist ideology that targets real estate value. Klouche’s work Panamera shows the different layers of built being a consequence of successional architectural movements. Including perfectly restored early modernist superstructures as well as ruins of late postmodernist skyscrapers.