Pierre Faure
Büro für Fotos, Cologne
28 October - 16 December 2000
The large color photographs of PIERRE FAURE are images of urban civilisation in the metropolis of the present. They show people and situations in a city space that has long ago lost, or perhaps never owned, a human measure: industrial zones at urban peripheries and in city centres, traffic junctions, urban no man's lands.
The films and photographic work of Pierre Faure are based "as he himself says in an interview" on constant observation. As an observer, he becomes attentive to situations in which individuals maintain their presence in relation to lifeless surroundings. A group of taxi drivers sits between two rows of cabs, under one of the countless pillars at a Parisian airport. Waiting for hours in this space, they play chess. A man and a woman meet on the Plateau of La Defense before the stereotypical cold facades of a wall of office buildings. A traveller reads, quiet and alone, in the waiting room of a train station, oblivious to the garbage around her. The urban situations that Pierre Faure describes show how parallel worlds with invisible boundaries evolve out of "non-lieux"(non-space) realms and point the way to the choreography of the everyday.
Through this rich and complex net of relationships we find ourselves in unknown spheres where nothing belongs to anyone, but also where signs of the human condition blink off and on. In this respect, Pierre Faure seeks to frame the way our hidden compasses guide us across the public stage. Pierre Faure prevents the viewer from penetrating his work by keeping him at a certain remove from the space represented. He reveals no recognisable social classifications of his subjects; his interest lies in the diversity of appearance and sense of reality each person projects alone or in relationship to others.
Pierre Faure was born in 1965, studied photography in Arles at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie. He lives in Montreuil near Paris.
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