Photographer Florence Verrier’s first encounter with the plant world came when she was a child. Growing up in the south of France, surrounded by fields and nature, she would let herself be lulled by the light playing in the leaves of the sycamore trees. Since then, she has been drawn to strong colors, “natural” materials, and the hard light delineating shadows. Then she began to seek out transparency in our surroundings, and found what she was looking for in flowers. Everything is there: transparency, material, color. Her influences range from Irving Penn and Ralph Gibson to Bernard Faucon, Bailly-Maitre-Grand and Rinko Kawauchi.
This first “plant mirror” had something in common to the human face. The encounter was fortuitous. It was a photograph of an arum. There was symmetry. Verrier began looking for other flowers with the same “construction.” And so, flower by flower, her garden began to grow, with each blossom revealing a new face.
EXHIBITION
Simply Flowers ?
Du 3 avril au 15 mai 2014
Galerie GADCOLLECTION
5 rue des Sablons
75116 PARIS
