6 November - 20 December 2008

Guillaume Herbaut introduces the series 4/7: Slavoutich with a seemingly endless corridor whose industrial coldness is synonymous with violence. It is the corridor of Chernobyl station linking the deserted nuclear accident zone with the new town of Slavoutich, home to the thousands of workers still endeavouring to contain the disaster twenty years on. Fully embracing the subjectivity of the photographic image, Herbaut uses it as a vector for a critical point of view of the world and its darker side, be it through private experience, anecdotal incidents or momentous events. In Slavoutich, the question of the relationship between Man and Nature provides the framework for a narrative which reveals the daily life of a town born from a technological catastrophe, its inhabitants living under permanent threat from the poisoned countryside. Guillaume Herbaut spotlights the failure of the naïve trust Man places in technological progress and how difficult we find it to reflect on our mistakes.



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