… Two arms were enough to make my life a great necklace of air…

 

louis aragon, "it should not have been",

in. the unfinished novel, 1956

 

 

 

 

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the exhibition "les saisons de maia flore" invites to cross one year of photographic poetry to the rhythm of the sensitivity of the artist.

 

the works presented, produced over the past fifteen years, highlight the artist's intimate link with nature in general, if not with flowers in particular. always staged in her somewhat surrealist compositions, and often tinged with humor, she rarely exposes her face, to let the viewer himself interfere in the spaces created: "I create a visual intimacy with the landscapes by finding in nature the link with the relief of our human body ” . the body of maia flore, in touch with nature, then becomes a universal ideogram which allows everyone to experience their own feelings ... there, a breeze is gently felt, here the contact of a tree or a flowerbed of flowers reminds us of how alive we are.

alongside his photos, the gallery also presents preparatory drawings by the artist, unique copies that allow a better understanding of his creative process.

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as a punctuation to maia flore's works, the remarkable series of english engravings “twelve months of flowers”, a joint work of the artist pieter casteels, the engraver henry fletcher and the nurseryman robert furber, will be exhibited in an edition of the dietz press (circa 1930). this famous ensemble, which covers every month of the year, consists of a series of spectacular seasonal bouquets. it is considered the first commercial catalog of horticulture in its original edition of 1731.

 

these twelve months of flowers will be completed by an exclusive floral creation: the "thirteenth month bouquet" by renowned Parisian florist debeaulieu, whose fascinating compositions accommodate timeless or forgotten flowers with more contemporary plants in often electric colors.

 

for this new opus, muriel fagnoni and julia gai indeed choose to reconnect with the telescoping of eras, dear to their style of curation, and to find maia flore, already exhibited in the first edition of quand les fleurs nous sauvent.

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imbued with dreaminess, the visual language of maia flore provides a tremendous breath in a time constrained and confined. with its incredibly light photographic paintings, maia flore is doing us good, and it is more than ever necessary.