Dahlias Eatcetera - Flammanville
In the exhibition “Dahlias Eatcetera“ my flower still live work was on show.
Already since 2003 I create small flower still lives and ever since then it’s something that I kept on doint besides my more spatial work.
Press release:
With more than a thousand varieties from the five continents, the
Château de Flamanville is home to the only dahlia conservatory garden in
Europe. Dedicated to the preservation of the species of this flower, it
presents the collection of the French Dahlia Society, whose many
varieties bloom until the last months of summer.
Taking the garden’s territory as a starting point, the Centre photographique Rouen Normandie has conceived an exhibition associating four photographers gathered around the flower.The invitation was first extended to Marion Maimon, a
French photographer, to document the different varieties present in the
conservatory garden during the past flowering season, in the fall of
2021. While in residency in Flamanville, she wandered around the garden
and made a gallery of portraits of dahlias, “posing” in front of the
elements of the coastal landscape: sky, water, rock. She is joined here
by three photographers who have each recently developed a personal work
on the flower. The Dutch photographer Popel Coumou deploys skilful architectures of colored papers and modeling clay flowers oscillating between naivety and precision. Hubert Crabières, a French photographer, portrays the artificial flower, between pretension to realism and fantasy temptation, while Jason Evans, an English photographer and actor of the community garden The Garden Gate Project located in Margate (Kent), makes still life the place of social linkage, by conducting photographic workshops.