The motorway also includes rest areas. These fall into two categories: rest areas, located every 15 km, with picnic tables, restrooms, and access to water; and service areas, located every 30-40 km, which also include a petrol station and shops. Across France, there are 364 service areas and 637 rest areas.The Montélimar service area (Drôme),…

Finland, 2026. In the heart of a wintry Finland, two female photographers, 林盈蓁 Ying-Zhen Lin, aka Zephyr, and Laure Abouaf, construct an experience of movement based on attention and circulation, thus eschewing the conquest of the landscape. Rejecting the spectacular vision of the North, the series explores contemporary ways of inhabiting the world: moving, waiting,…

La Perralière, Villeurbanne, 2023. The Modern Movement, and by extension the invention of the modern city, raises the question of collective housing as a way of life, but also as an ideological project. Reflections on the rationalization of social housing and architectural functionalism emerged between the two world wars, but truly took off after the…

OFNI is an artistic project led by the Ô Tangible collective, composed of Tatiana Bailly and Charlotte Peyrard. Created within the Hospices Civils de Lyon, it was developed with patients over twelve working sessions. Photographs 2025

Vaulx-en-Velin. Photographs 2026 MUE is an artistic project carried out by the Ô Tangible collective, composed of Tatiana Bailly and Charlotte Peyrard, carried out with the Environnement Ville Société Laboratory of the University of Lyon 2 as part of the Rivive project around the restoration of the Rize river.The photographs, beyond archiving, make it possible…

The new mobilities paradigm involves analyzing diverse intersecting networks, relations, flows and circulation, and not fixed places. Mimi Sheller and John Urry Is Europe a borderless space, or a space where borders are shifted, hierarchized, and differentiated? According to Doreen Massey, mobility and the control of mobility are dimensions of power: some groups organize flows,…

Lyon. Photographs (2017 – 2023) Line C14 traverses a nebulous realm, skirting the Saône and Rhône rivers—a city long known as “misty,” home to a dense fog with distinct contours. I regularly took the C14 bus, crossing half the city first thing in the morning, surrendering to daydreams and carried away by the gentle flavors…

Photographs (2019 – going on) Originally from the Parisian suburbs, I return to Paris from time to time, always wondering how I will see the city. In the same vein as Espace(s) de ville – Lyon, I take the city in pictures like a portrait, a blend of wonder and weariness, imbued with memories and…

Photographs (2017 – 2023) extracts “Geographic, physical, human, sometimes punctuated by vast swathes of shadow where bursts of light collide, always subtle: this is a Europe seen through the cities in which Laure Abouaf has immersed herself over the years, driven by an intimate perception of color. Lyon, Belgrade, Bratislava, Sarajevo, Budapest, Timișoara, Bucharest, Ljubljana,…

Photographs (2017 – en cours) Our perception of who we are, where we belong, the extent of our obligations—in short, our identity—is profoundly affected by our perception of our position in space and time. David Harvey, inGeography of Domination: Capitalism and the Production of Space Excerpts from Espace(s) de ville – Lyon were shown in: