{"product_id":"cite-gagarine-1961-2020","title":"Gagarin City 1961-2020","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMarie-Pierre Dieterlé began exploring the Gagarine housing project in 2009. Built in 1961 in Ivry-sur-Seine, it became an emblem of the red suburbs and a showcase for the French Communist Party, of which Ivry was the historic stronghold. It was the beginning of social housing, full of hope and utopia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEntire families were able to leave the slums to benefit from a minimum rental: an apartment with hot water, toilets, and integrated heating. In June 1963, the visit of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin helped to forge the myth of a city unlike any other. Amidst general jubilation and bouquets of flowers, the Soviet cosmonaut planted a tree in memory of his visit...\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen, like many cities in the Parisian suburbs, the dream began to crumble. In the 1990s, the Gagarine estate was classified as a sensitive urban zone (ZUS). This urban policy label, supposed to prioritize these areas, has become the stigma of social, economic, and geographic segregation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDemolition gradually became necessary. All the families had to be rehoused.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2017, only about a hundred of the city's 380 occupied homes remained. Faced with this inexorable end, Marie-Pierre Dieterlé offered the Gagarine Community Center and the city of Ivry-sur-Seine artistic support based on photography workshops with residents with a view to creating a giant exhibition on the building's facade.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was at this moment that she realized how painful the residents were experiencing the loss of their city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything was about to disappear. As a photographer, the need to create a memorial imposed itself on her. For two years, she wandered the long, half-empty corridors, looking for faces to immortalize. Then she followed the stages of ecological deconstruction by nibbling away at the building until the last red brick disappeared.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42307396075760,"sku":"25244","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/arton1200-cdd75.jpg?v=1642262969","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/cite-gagarine-1961-2020","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}