Flore
Biography
Born in 1963, FLORE is a French-Spanish photographer artist currently living in Paris. After working for ten years in the national press, she now devotes herself exclusively to her personal work. Winner of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Prize in partnership with the Academy of Fine Arts in 2018, she produces her work over long timespans, usually through voyages. Her works have been acquired and exhibited in various prestigious institutions such as the Musée du Petit Palais, the BnF, the MMP+ in Marrakech or the Mémorial de Rivesaltes.
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.
FLORE is totally committed to the quest for memory and makes “non-sensational” images that attempt to recreate truth in place of a reality that is gradually fading away.
She defines her poetic and atemporal universe as a political act, which is her way of positioning herself in front of the “beam of darkness that comes from her time”, as G. Agamben says.
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.
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.
FLORE is totally committed to the quest for memory and makes “non-sensational” images that attempt to recreate truth in place of a reality that is gradually fading away.
She defines her poetic and atemporal universe as a political act, which is her way of positioning herself in front of the “beam of darkness that comes from her time”, as G. Agamben says.
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.
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Flore - Le temps du souvenir Rétrospective 1996-2023, Villa Tamaris, Paris, France
2022 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
2022 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, Château du Val Fleury, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2021 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, Festival Photo Phnom Penh, Cambodge
2021 Quel amour c’était, Festival Planches Contact, Deauville, France
2021 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, Festival CARGO, Saint-Nazaire, France
2021 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France
2020-2021 L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, Institut de France, Paris, France
2020 Maroc, un temps suspendu, Festival du regard, Cergy-Pontoise, France
2018 Camp de Rivesaltes, lieu de souffrance, Photo Doc Galerie, Paris
2018 Loin de l’Espoir, Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, Rivesaltes, France
2017 Une femme française en Orient, Festival PHOTOMED, Sanary, France
2016-2017 Lointains souvenirs, Exposition itinérante (Festival Chroniques Nomade (Auxerre, France), Festival Castelnuevo Fotografia (Rome), Galerie Sit Down (Paris), Galerie Blanca Berlin (Madrid))
2015 La chambre de la Collectionneuse, Galerie Sit Down, Paris, France
2015 Invitation au voyage, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Maroc
2014 Invitation au voyage, Galerie Kowasa, Barcelone, Espagne
2010-2013 Une femme française en Orient, Exposition itinérante (Galerie Fotografika (Gland, Suisse), Fort Napoléon (La Seyne sur Mer, France), Galerie Wada Garou (Tokyo, Japon), Festival Sept Off (Nice, France), Galerie Kowasa (Barcelone, Espagne), Galerie Adorna Coraçoes (Porto, Portugal), Galerie Demi-Teinte (Paris, France))
2009 Loin de l’Espoir & Je me souviens de vous, Espace St-Cyprien, Toulouse, France
2009 Loin de l’Espoir & Je me souviens de vous, Centre Méditerranéen de l’Image, Château de Malves, France
2008 La Coopée, Commande Pays Corbière & Minervois, Ferrals les Corbières, France
2007-2008 Je me souviens de vous, Exposition itinérante (Maison de Région,Galerie-Librairie Torcatis (Perpignan, France), Camp de Concentration de Rivesaltes (France))
2006 Loin de l’Espoir, Galerie-Librairie Torcatis, Perpignan, France
2006 Loin de l’Espoir, Journées du Patrimoine, Camp de Concentration de Rivesaltes, France
2005 Flore en son Palais, (réouverture du Petit Palais), Musée des Beaux- Arts de la Ville de Paris, France
2005 Flore en son Palais, Galerie Demi-Teinte, Paris, France
2004 Le Petit Palais à quatre heures du matin, Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Ville de Paris. Hôtel d’Albret, Paris, France
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2020 Une certaine scène française, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France
2019 Du Maroc, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France
2018 L’esprit des lieux, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France
2018 Impact, Mizuma, Kips & Wada Art, New-York, US
2014 Plata de ley, Galerie Blanca Berlin, Madrid, Espagne
2014 Théâtre Ouvert, l’audace du texte, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
2014 Un maroc raconté autrement, Galerie 127 à l’Hotel de Sauroy, MOIS DE LA PHOTO, Paris, France
2014 Comme des chuchotements, Le Percolateur, Marseille, France
2012 Anté numérique, Atelier Tozf, Paris, France
2009 Flash Back, Journées du Patrimoine, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France
2005 Derrière la palissade, Palissades du Petit Palais, Paris, France
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Collection Florence et Damien Bachelot
Collection du Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP)
Collection Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Musée de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels de Marrakech
Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes
Galerie du Château d’Eau de Toulouse
Collection Hubert de Wangen
Collection Ely-Michel Ruimy
Collection Leticia et Stanislas Poniatowski
BIBLIOGRAPHY
L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin, éditions Maison CF, Paris, 2020
Maroc, un temps suspendu, Préface de Frédéric Mitterand, éditions Contrejour, 2019
Camp de Rivesaltes, lieu de souffrance, Textes de Denis Peschanski et FLORE, éditions André Frères, Paris, 2018
Lointains souvenirs, Préface de Laure Adler et écrits de Marguerite Duras, co-éditions Contrejour et Postcart, 2016
Une femme française en Orient, Texte de Natacha Wolinski, édition Postcart, 2014
Works
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Un air de fête, 2008
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Smyrne, 2009
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Les Fiancés du Bosphore, 2009
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Caminin Kedi, 2009
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Le Port de Mogador, 2010
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Rue du Hammam, 2010
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Le Lit de la fiancée, 2011
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Les amies, 2011
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Nuit d'été à Tanger, 2011
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Soleil de feu, 2011
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Sans titre , 2016
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Souvenir du Douanier Rousseau, 2019
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Avions-nous déjà vécu là?, 2019
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L'eau à la bouche, 2019
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Douceur du soir, 2019
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Jeu de garçons, 2019
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Tant de douceur dans l'air, 2019
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Tangerine, 2019
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Petite cueillette, 2019
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Montée vers le ciel, 2019
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Orient éternel, 2019
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Chère amie, 2020
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Nuit bleue, 2020
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Rêverie, 2020
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Avec Hélène L, 2020
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Un air si familier, 2020
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Lumière de sieste, 2020
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Petite figure décorative sur fond ornemental, 2020
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L'odeur de la pluie, 2020
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Sans titre, 2020
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Matin de paix, 2020
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L'or du souvenir, 2020
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Le singe d'Émilie Pascal, 2022
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Un jardin pour Eugène D. #02, 2022
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Un jardin pour Eugène D. #10, 2022
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Un jardin pour Eugène D. #06, 2022
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Un jardin pour Eugène D. #08, 2022
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Un jardin pour Eugène D. #09, 2022
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La lune lune, 2022
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Esquisse pour une estampe chinoise, 2022
Installations Views
Exhibitions
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10 years!
Anniversary exhibition 14 Apr - 14 May 2022This exhibition takes a look back at all the exhibitions and publications that marked the gallery’s history. With works by Claude Iverné, Munem Wasif, Pierre-Elie de Pibrac, Baudouin, James Barnor,...Read more -
L’odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin
FLORE 19 May - 31 Jul 2021Un barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Eden Cinéma, L'Amant, L'Amant de la Chine du Nord... the words of Marguerite Duras constitute for FLORE a thread that leads her beyond places and...Read more -
Une certaine scène française
Juliette Agnel, Marco Barbon, Adrien Boyer, Flore and Guillaume Zuili 28 Nov 2020 - 30 Jan 2021What links the photographs of Juliette Agnel, Marco Barbon, Adrien Boyer, FLORE and Guillaume Zuili? A taste for documentary? A curiosity for history? An interest in the relationship between text...Read more -
Du Maroc
FLORE, Marco Barbon et Adrien Boyer 11 Sep - 11 Nov 2019The gallery Clémentine de la Féronnière, in partnership with the biennial des images du monde arabe contemporain, brings together the work of three photographers: FLORE, Marco Barbon and Adrien Boyer....Read more
Art Fairs
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Art Paris
Juliette Agnel, FLORE, Mikiya Takimoto, Jesse Willems 3 - 7 Apr 2024List of works on displayRead more -
Paris Photo
Juliette Agnel, James Barnor, FLORE, Paul Graham, Thomas Klotz, Martin Parr, Guillaume Zuili 8 - 12 Nov 2023The artists selected by Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière for Paris Photo 2023 question the reciprocal relations between humans and the territory they inhabit. This...Read more -
Manifesta
22 May - 24 Jul 2023Steeped in history, this former silk trading workshop located at 6 rue de Pizay in Lyon (France) is today transformed into a cultural center by...Read more -
Paris Photo 2022
10 - 12 Nov 2022The stand consists of a collection of important works, most of which have never been shown before. A previously unseen print by James Barnor, whose...Read more
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