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Under the pseudonym We Are Vertikal is a collaboration between two artists with complementary practices: Elisa Roy and Sébastien Pineau.

It is the common love for the urbex, the exploration of abandoned places, which is the basis of our creative approach. 

For the realization of our series of photomontages we made several hours of research and prepared our journey, a journey of more than 2000 kms between Romania and Bulgaria around places with characteristic histories. The name of the works in this series takes the location or the name of the place :

Buzludzha, is a former congress center of the Bulgarian Communist Party, L'Evangelia, a ship of goods stranded on the shore of the Black Sea, Avrig, a church with atypical architecture and Constanta an art deco style casino which was a high place of the Romanian aristocracy.

Elisa captures with her camera the contours and shadows of these buildings. All our photographs are made in silver and black and white. The rendering of this technique is unique, the grain and nuances allow to restore the ghostly side and the soul of the place we perceive during our explorations.

On our return from our journey, after the development of the photographs, Sébastien decomposes and composes the photomontages to transform these carcasses into precious adornments.


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Who is the artist?

Under the pseudonym We Are Vertikal is a collaboration between two artists with complementary practices: Elisa Roy and Sébastien Pineau.

It is the common love for the urbex, the exploration of abandoned places, which is the basis of our creative approach. 

For the realization of our series of photomontages we made several hours of research and prepared our journey, a journey of more than 2000 kms between Romania and Bulgaria around places with characteristic histories. The name of the works in this series takes the location or the name of the place :

Buzludzha, is a former congress center of the Bulgarian Communist Party, L'Evangelia, a ship of goods stranded on the shore of the Black Sea, Avrig, a church with atypical architecture and Constanta an art deco style casino which was a high place of the Romanian aristocracy.

Elisa captures with her camera the contours and shadows of these buildings. All our photographs are made in silver and black and white. The rendering of this technique is unique, the grain and nuances allow to restore the ghostly side and the soul of the place we perceive during our explorations.

On our return from our journey, after the development of the photographs, Sébastien decomposes and composes the photomontages to transform these carcasses into precious adornments.

When was We Are Vertikal born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1990