Flamenco Floral
Flowers and light/ a love story. I work with natural light, not light as a simple technical condition, but as a revelator: it transforms the object into a sensitive appearance. What I pursue is not their true image, but the feeling of a fragile, precarious adjustment to what surrounds me. Photographing then becomes a way of experiencing my belonging to the world.
Here the choice of poppy is not insignificant: this flower is crossed by paradoxes: immediate beauty, delicate seduction, but also toxicity, disappearance. It embodies the tension between brightness and fading.
I named the Flamenco series to evoke a still movement. This dance, like the flower, condenses the intensity of life. Flamenco is a popular artistic expression, which expresses the deep feelings of the human being: sadness, suffering, love, joy.
This work has taken on colour. I usually prefer black and white, but here colour is essential. It does not embellish the image, it is rather its beating heart, the means of making tangible an inner experience, imperceptible.”
