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Last year a beautiful iconic building in my neighbourhood was brought down in order to replace it with a new building — a condo with small studios. The iconic watermark was only 40 years old and absolutely not obsolete. People saw it and very soon forgot how their street was before.
During the demolition I took photos and videos every day to have a memory of the block and of the tearing down, which had a certain beauty in itself. For that reason I hired a hotel room in front of the building in order to have the best spot for my pictures. With the covid-19 crisis starting I finally had time to do something with this content: I mounted two pictures that were taken through a sort of round keyhole in round, old, worn-out frames that I had found the year before in a tiny antique shop in Paris. The video — a 7-minute loop of the teardown — is shown on an iPhone locked into a helmet, a reflection on masks in corona-time.
The title refers to the name of the insurance company that resided there twenty years ago.
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