Rhodia
Rhodia
Here is a series of twenty moments that follow the disappearance of the old Rhodiacéta factory in Besançon, more familiarly called La Rhodia. These drawings, which bear witness to a time of shift towards another future, are a link where we see the sedimentary layers of a multifaceted History appear.
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The Rhodia is dense, it bears the mark of the eras it has been through: the time when farmers became workers, the time of industry (it was the world's first artificial textile factory before being bought by the Rhodiacéta group), the time of workers', social and cultural movements (symbol of the great strikes of 1967, it was filmed by Chris Marker and saw the birth of the Medvedkine groups), the time of relocation, the time of abandoned wastelands as spaces for expression and exploration. Now, it has given way to a park, witness to an era where natural environments seek their commons. In the interstices of the place's past life, the thousand memories that have passed through it are housed
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