Mâchefer . 2017
Whether through restoration or decline, Lara Almarcegui seeks to shine a spotlight on derelict urban spaces. The 85 m3 of clinker (mâchefer in French) that constitute her work of the same name came from the destruction of the gateway of Halle Girard, a disused boiler factory built in 1857. It is located some 200 metres from La Sucrière, on the other side of the Lyon peninsula (the Presqu’île), and was part of the now almost invisible industrial past of the Confluence area. Clinker is the fused residue of coal combustion, and its re-use in urbanism projects was particularly common in the Lyon region until the 1990s.
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