ABOUT

"Anne Immelé’s Oublie Oublie is a book about a transitional time and place. Between 2019 and early 2020, the French artist surveyed municipal works and changes in the neighborhood of Le Nouveau Drouot in Mulhouse, France where she lives and teaches photography. The urban environment of her images suggests the 1950s’ and 60’s city planning that is woefully out of date. The local government has begun to board up shops and housing estate towers prior to demolition in an attempt to reform the area and bring modernization to its facade. The works in their entirety meant displacement and relocation for many of the people living in the quarter. As boards and bricks went up along the first and second floor of the apartment complexes and as the familiar landscape of the area began to change piece by piece, Anne documented the moment in which “progress” had begun". - Brad Feuerhelm