Antoine Bruy

From 2010 to 2013, I hitchhiked throughout Europe with the aim to meet men and women who made the radical choice to live away from cities, willing to abandon their lifestyle based on performance, efficiency and consumption. Without any fixed route, driven by encounters and chance, this trip eventually became...
From 2010 to 2013, I hitchhiked throughout Europe with the aim to meet men and women who made the radical choice to live away from cities, willing to abandon their lifestyle based on performance, efficiency and consumption. Without any fixed route, driven by encounters and chance, this trip eventually became for me a similar kind of initiatory quest to those of these families. The experiments shown here display various fates which I think should not only be seen at a political level, but more importantly as daily and immediate experiences. The heterogeneity of places and situations shows us the beautiful paradox of the pursuit of a utopia through permanent empirical attempts and sometimes errors. Unstable structures, recovered materials, or multiple applications of agricultural theories allow us to see the variety of human trajectories. All of which aiming at developing strategies to gain greater energy, food, economic or social autonomy. These are in some way spontaneous responses to the societies these men and women left behind. Therefore their land is exploited but never submitted, the time has lost his tight linearity to become a slow and deliberate pace. No more clock ticking but the ballet of days and nights, seasons and lunar cycles.
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Vincent, The Pyrenees, France, 2012
Ramounat, The Pyrenees, France, 2012
Julian working on a bathtub, Sierra del Hacho, Spain, 2013
The Radio, The Pyrenees, France, 2012
The straw-bale house, Apuseni Verzi, Carpathians, 2013
Urs, The Pyrenees, France, 2012
Two girls taking a bath, Carpatians Mountains, Roumania, 2013
Sabine, Alps, Switzerland, 2013
Composting Toilets, Sierra Nevada, 2013
El Pardal, Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013