Is this the future of clubbing? In 2014 François Prost travelled around France and Belgium photographing iconic nightclubs in daylight. Sometimes kitsch, often tacky, their front facades are designed to attract revellers a few drinks in, but the morning after—as Prost captures them, lights switched off, doors shut up—their architecture becomes absurd on the industrial or rural landscapes they occupy. Gen Z-ers are more likely to be at home than at a seedy, overpriced party, and Prost shoots with a certain kind of nostalgic eye, an ode to a disappearing visual language and the kind of nocturnal magic these spaces once harnessed. A selection from the hundreds of dejected nightclubs Prost photographed is currently on show in Paris at Superette Gallery, in the artist’s solo exhibition, Photo Stories.
