Terrain Vague

Terrain Vague explores the abandoned spaces that exist beyond the ordered image of the city. Across these neglected landscapes, discarded objects, memory, and imagination converge, revealing places that remain physically close yet culturally invisible.

Although rooted in the reality of illegal dumping sites, the project extends beyond environmental concerns. Through repeated visits to these peripheral environments, discarded objects become material traces of anonymous lives, carrying the marks of consumption, abandonment, and everyday experience. Each photograph begins with an act of collecting, selecting, and composing found materials, transforming the site itself into both studio and stage. The resulting assemblages exist only long enough to be photographed before disappearing back into the landscape.

Rather than documenting these places, Terrain Vague reimagines them. The photographs move between document, fiction, and performance, allowing chance, imperfection, and uncertainty to become active elements in the image-making process. What emerges is neither pure documentation nor invention, but a space where the overlooked and the familiar, absence and presence, coexist.

These landscapes reveal what falls outside the frameworks through which cities define order, value, and productivity. Without attempting to impose meaning or restore what has been abandoned, the project allows the inherent disorder of these places to remain visible, acknowledging chaos not as the opposite of culture but as one of its defining conditions.

Rather than redeeming what has been discarded, Terrain Vague reimagines it. The work invites viewers to linger at the threshold between reality and fiction, where abandoned materials are no longer read simply as waste but as fragments of untold narratives, opening new ways of seeing the landscapes we habitually choose to ignore.