Bruno Serralongue
Ce cerisier au pied duquel était attaché une pancarte sur laquelle on pouvait lire « Je suis un cerisier de 30 ans et je veux vivre » a été abattu en septembre 2021 afin de permettre la construction d'une piscine d’entraînement pour les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024, jardin ouvrier des Vertus, Aubervilliers, 19 juin 2021., 2021
series Jardins ouvriers des Vertus
inkjet print on Canson Baryta Prestige paper, mounted on dibond and Plexiglas cover
framed 51 x 63,5 cm / without frame 50 x 62,5 cm
Edition of 5

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As the climate crisis is getting worse and biodiversity is collapsing, more than 10,000m² of community garden are threatened by the construction of a solarium for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a Grand Paris Express train station and an office and hotel district.Bulldozers from Spie Batignolles are preparing to destroy one of the finest examples of community garden still existing in the Ile-de-France region. These Community Garden, now known as Garden to Defend (GAD), are located less than two kilometers from Paris, in Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis (93). GAD Aubervilliers was evicted on September 2. In the space of a few hours, the shacks with their long working-class history, the old trees and the land of the gardens were destroyed by bulldozers
- text from the website of the group « Defense of Aubervilliers Community Garden »