鲍特·安托万

　　With his latest production ? Zone of Initial Dilution ?, the author looks at the changes of the Three Gorges area transformed by the construction of the world’s largest hydraulic dam. Before the end of the task, scheduled for 2008, he is documenting the river banks and the cities from the ones destroyed to the booming ones.
　　From the power shifts to new relationships to the Yangzi, this visual study focuses on the consequences to landscapes and the local population in the perspective of the ultimate flooding.
　　This Zone of Initial Dilution, a term engineers use to define the pollution perimeter of a stream that slowly dilutes itself within a river, illustrate the situation implemented in this region with the gradual disappearing of a way of life and its local customs. The rives changes into a lake, flattens the rough terrain and becomes usable but tame.
　　This video installation is the result of research conducted over a year with a grant from “Envers des Villes” given by Cultures France from the ministry of Foreign Affairs