“Les Choux de Créteil”, very urban – Liberation

Photographer Wendy Huynh and artistic director Jessica Pichet pay homage to this set of buildings, built fifty years ago, in an exciting photographic project at the International Youth Union of the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

At the antipodes of the dull and stiff architecture that characterized the suburbs of the 1960s, Les Choux de Créteil (Val-de-Marne) is a set of eleven towers designed by the utopian architect Gérard Grandval, with concrete balconies in the shape of leaves and petals. Built on former market garden land, these whimsical-looking habitats were captured by photographer Wendy Huynh and artistic director Jessica Pichet, in a rich photographic project that plunges us into the heart of the lives of neighborhood residents.

On the roof of the Jacques-Prévert school and on the grounds of the Louis-Issaurat gymnasium. The young people came to watch the match of the African Cup of Nations of the districts putting in competition Cameroon against Ivory Coast, in June 2021.
(Wendy Huynh)

The players of the Cameroon team, in June 2021. (Wendy Huynh)

A balcony in the Cité des Choux, boulevard Pablo-Picasso. (Wendy Huynh)

Entertainment for families unable to go on vacation in July. (Wendy Huynh)

Designed by the architect Gérard Grandval, the Charles-Péguy school has kept the organic shapes found in Les Choux. (Wendy Huynh)

Handball player Sambou Sissoko and his daughter. (Wendy Huynh)

The Choux cherry trees, in March.

Venus Yaffa, during the neighborhood festival, in July. (Wendy Huynh)

View of Les Choux from a building.

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“Les Choux de Créteil”, at the International Youth Union (Paris XVIII). From November 10 to 20.