In Les maisons endormies, Maxime Voidy presents a series of photographs of houses with shutters closed along the Brittany coast. Drawing up an iconographic landscape of a France of second homes, this book poetically highlights the issues of urban planning and the social balance of housing in a region where some villages are 80% unoccupied for much of the year.
In the low season, seaside resorts along the Brittany coast are emptying out. Holidaymakers leave, sand castles crumble. Shops close to announce the winter break. The houses close their eyelids and go into a deep sleep. I scan these sleeping houses, listening to them breathe slowly; each one seems to have a story to tell.
The Serial Pictures collection invites artists working on series of images (drawings, photographs, texts, etc.). These small artists' books will over time form a collection dedicated to contemporary exploring the book as a space for display in its own right.
Maxime Voidy (born 1993 in Rennes) is a French artist whose photographic work revolves around the exploration of territory and its architecture.
