Factory at a Standstill
The closure of a factory brings a sudden halt to an entire ecosystem built to keep machines running without interruption. At full capacity, production workshops appear as vast mechanical landscapes, populated by workers endlessly repeating the same gestures, skills, and routines, under the supervision of foremen and engineers. A complex chain of labor dissolves abruptly when the workshop closes, and its discontinued reveals both the monotony and the vast scale of the industrial world. The industrial crisis is also a real estate shock, one that lastingly affects the image of towns like Yverdon-les-Bains and Sainte-Croix, reduced to bleak visions of empty factories shrouded in fog.