SPAIN / FRANCE

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Born in 1963, FLORE is a French-Spanish photographer. After working for ten years in the press, she now devotes herself exclusively to her personal work.

Through refined technical interventions in the darkroom, like an alchemist herself, FLORE shapes as much as she restores the world that unfolds before her eyes to make unique images that move away from conventional photography, creating a fusion between content and form.
She questions the photographic medium by switching with ease from the oldest techniques such as platinum-palladium or cyanotype, to the most modern, sometimes mixing them and physically intervening on the prints with wax, gold or pigments.
Far from nostalgia, her work tinged with melancholy questions the status of the image in our contemporary societies and tries to propose an alternative to the torments of the world by inviting the spectator to enter her poetic world.
Because in revolt is offered hope, because memories are opposed to life, because the ephemeral of the anecdote is opposed to thought, because feeling is opposed to the experience of the visible, the work of FLORE stands out in its singularity.

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The Smell Of The Night Was That Of Jasmine

Indochina, monsoon, humidity, the beauty of the Mekong, and the perils of the night... The narratives of the photographer artist FLORE's grandparents, who lived in the same era and places as Marguerite Duras, have imbued her childhood with profound mysteries that now fuel a shared imagination between her and the writer. Following "Distant Memories," her initial series centered around Marguerite Duras' adolescence, FLORE continues to "photographically invent" a mythicized Indochina. In this instance, she presents a journey through time, expanding the realm with undiscovered spaces, capturing something that may not necessarily have existed but whose premise is accepted – a life that would have been lived nearly 100 years ago, as recounted by Marguerite Duras in her books.

This exhibition comprises around thirty six silver gelatin prints meticulously crafted by the artist in the darkroom.