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Fifty High Season #37

In 1963, President Charles de Gaulle initiated a regional development plan, known as Mission Racine, which transformed a portion of the wild and windy coastline between Montpellier and Perpignan into a series of seaside resorts. These final incarnations of the 30 Glorieuses, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, were built in the 1960s and fascinate by their worrying strangeness. Avant-Gardistes for the time, the proud and monumental «resorts» of yesterday erected by the young architectural guard today have the ostentatious charm of anachronism. Through her series Fifty High Seasons, Shane Lynam intends to take a look at this region from the margins, a necessary perspective that emanates from the c...

2010-2017
Digital print
45.0 x 60.0cm
© Shane Lynam, Bertrand Grimont gallery, 2019