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  • Feb 02, 2010

The project “Flâneuse” is inspired by Baudelaire’s flâneur, figure that wanders around aimlessly through the streets of the 19th century admiring urban beauty. In the photographic essay, this character is brought to these days, at its female version, equipped with a camera. But the personification of the flâneuse nowadays, when everything is so fast, brings up several questions. In her slow and fascinated walk, the photographer is jostled by the passers-by, her rhythm is suffocated by urban haste. She tries in vain to observe people, like she would originally, but they pass by too fast for her to imagine one story for every face. The city, that would be her refuge, begins to afflict her. So she wanders in vain, looking for this world that always escapes from her, like a fluid scenery dominated by time.

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