Maxime Sauvage’s recent work is part of a discreet intervention in public space. Inspired by neglected shop windows, the triptych evokes both the neighborhood’s vacant businesses and the precariousness of cultural venues. Each image exploits the backlighting of the light boxes to underline the strangeness of these abandoned shop windows, illuminated as if inadvertently from within. By hijacking the codes of urban signage, the artist highlights the fragility of a social fabric undermined by real-estate speculation. The showcases presented are not documented locations, but models constructed from recycled materials, then exposed to the elements and photographed. These images take on the appearance of false advertisements or mirrors of a city in transformation. Somewhere between fiction and observation, Vacants offers a sensitive meditation on urban space, where, despite everything, a shared memory is written.