Public Works - New Edition

In vast deserted areas, heavy machines are busy breaking up the rock, crush or drill the ground, build mountains, channel water, transform materials, slice, knead, compress, grind, cover… At the Following these mechanical devices, individuals, half-participants half-observers, sometimes assessing these titanic works and being astonished by them, sometimes seem to contribute to it. What are these works? Who orders them or leads? For what purpose? Where are we? Who are these masked characters and strangely dressed? Whatever their nature or status, their ambition seems in any case to reach its peak when, faced with a landscape radically reshaped, placed at the heart of gigantic artifacts, they raise their arms together and let out cries of pure enthusiasm: " Waaaaa… » With these eight demiurgic stories grouped under the title Public Works, In 2004, Yûichi Yokoyama laid the foundations of a world that he would go on to continued to strive tirelessly to describe, through numerous works, among which Voyage, Garden, Explorations, The Land of Ice, and more recently Plaza, all published by Éditions Matière. This new edition — augmented by three unpublished stories and photographs of construction site landscapes taken by Yokoyama — Celebrates 20 Years of Public Works.