we were never here is a guerrilla exhibition staged anonymously in a public park in Paris — a fittingly transient setting for a body of work rooted in movement, resistance, and subculture. The exhibition presents a raw collection of analogue photographs capturing the pulsating life of Paris’s underground techno scene, revealing the evolving styles, identities, and energies that inhabit its warehouses, basements, and backstreets.
This project is inspired by and based on the thesis From the Runway to the Warehouse: Balenciaga and the Evolution of Style and Identity in the Techno Scene by Nica Nanasi. In it, Nanasi traces the threads connecting high fashion and rave culture, illuminating how the underground has shaped — and been shaped by — shifting notions of self, gender, community, and rebellion.
Uninvited but intentional, we were never here is both a document and an act of defiance — a celebration of a culture that thrives in the shadows and transforms the night into a stage for radical expression.
