SAS

(n.) A small vestibule between two doors, often glazed, serving to prevent direct communication with the outside.

This editorial installation takes the form of a photographic inventory of the entrance halls of downtown Tours in 2024, exploring the narrative potential of the inventory as both a document and an artistic proposition. The edition is inseparable from its consultation device, inspired by archives and tabletop organization, where an accordion fold creates a sculptural dimension, reenacting frames and opening the space. Photographing middle-class residential halls, I capture standardized architecture marked by anonymous neutrality, reminiscent of the New Objectivity. The framing reenacts doors, windows, and corridors, echoing Lewis Baltz’s series on urbanization and Candida Höfer’s images, which evoke human presence without ever showing it. I photograph these empty spaces by addressing their potential uses as well as the traces of everyday life they carry. These transitional spaces, between private and public, are passed through without lingering. By visually removing the doors, the photographic process creates a false immersion, placing the viewer as a distant observer.