flowers are such an ubiquitous prop, but I found that if I created unusual environments for them to occupy,
their meaning changed each time. So the series is an attempt to create uncanniness in the everyday, 
and explore how context changes our connotations of these objects. ...
                               
brooke didonato

 

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the new event by quand les fleurs nous sauvent invites to enter "the secret garden of brooke didonato" pushing the door of the gallery as the push of a flat.

within this transformed space, the works of brooke didonato as well as the furniture and the objects which accompany it will be presented for sale.

the american artist's photographs re-invent a suburban ohio in which she grew up. within interior spaces in pastel colors, she stages the body - hers most of the time or that of loved ones sometimes. the artist incorporates everyday strangeness in constructions that question, disturb and where nothing is left to chance. attached to “stage photography”, and admiring one of her icons - gregory crewdson - brooke didonato composes extremely rigorous and thoughtful images, where she enjoys manipulating colors in a constant search for distortion of reality, “everything is sort of familiar, and it's almost a distortion of the familiar ”.

in this exploration of the intimate sphere, flowers hold a preponderant place and structure a large part of his work, where we find them photographed in all their forms: dried, wax, but also wallpaper or textile patterns of a sofa . what interests the artist in the use of her flowers (which she recognizes as “far from innovative”) is in fact their “ambiguity” and their potential to disturb the meaning of the image: “they can signify a time of mourning in one context, or a time of love and celebration in another ”.

to understand the depth of brooke didonato's research, his photographic experiments carried out with the american “paper engineer” matthew shlian will also be presented, which give his images a sculptural dimension.

on the occasion of the exhibition “ the secret garden of brooke didonato" by quand les fleurs nous sauvent, the artist's works will be staged with the desire to reconstitute an apartment echoing those who serve as a backdrop to his creations. this "living" setting, designed in collaboration with caroline de marco , an antique dealer specializing in the twentieth century, will offer the visitor a more intimate experience of the space-time defined by brooke didonato . evening, as soon as it closes, two people wishing to spend the night there. They will invest the living room on the street on the ground floor, before falling asleep in the bedroom on the first floor, thus experiencing the strangeness (“the uncanniness”). ) dear to the artist.

this new opus is an opportunity for muriel fagnoni and julia gai to continue their dialogue between eras, in a total staging where the works on display and the exhibition space vibrate in unison. already presented during two previous group-shows of quand les fleurs nous sauvent, the photographic universe of brooke didonato occupies all the walls here, resonating particularly with the time. in a strange mirror effect, his photographs confront us with our own way of inhabiting our interior spaces.

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the visits will take place in full compliance with the sanitary measures in force on the date of the opening, and in any case, a mask and hydro-alcoholic gel will be compulsory at the entrance.