How is a landscape made, undone, created or recreated? To try to answer
this question, Nicolas Badout presents here a new series of
illustrations, in the continuity of the16th Biennale of Contemporary Art
 of Lyon and its theme "Manifesto of fragility".
He thus wished to
evoke the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, which made the
whole world aware of the risks induced by the manipulation of atomic
energy and the severity of its damage on a regional and planetary scale,
 but also on bodies and minds.

As the main subject, the
"Energetik" Palace of Culture, a majestic ruin located in the city
center of Pripyat, appears as a silent witness to the catastrophe and
the flight of its inhabitants.
residents.
Like photographs, these
images travel to different eras — the past, the present but also the
future — evoking the passage of time and questioning the destruction and
 deterioration, accidental or voluntary, of a landscape.