"Ce que le béton retient", une exposition de Thomas Busuttil

Thomas Busuttil is a skateboarder and photographer, at the origin of several Parisian skate parks. The images of his project "What concrete holds back" speak of surfaces — those that we pass through without seeing them, those that we arrange without knowing why, those that we appropriate otherwise than planned.

Fontaine de Jouvence - 2022; Credits: Thomas Busuttil

The gaze that produced them comes from a culture of the street, that which marks in ordinary concrete a hidden geometry, in a dry channel an improbable beach, in a ramp abandoned at the bottom of a port the trace of a desire for space.

Film and digital, black and white and color, these photographs offer a reading at ground level of the contemporary urban world.

What Concrete Holds

“Ordinary photos of a multi-speed daily.

Images that tell the emotions of someone watching

- from the corner of the street to the four corners of the world.

An archeology of the present, roaming. No nostalgia.

Pay attention to what our bodies do to spaces and what spaces do to our bodies.

With the same intention each time: to take possession of a space, to measure it by the body, to make something of it, to experience it in its own way.

An ode to wear, slippage, experimentation, stealthy presence.

In memory of the passage. "

Thomas Busuttil