Fernanda stages herself, reveals herself, plays, and speaks. She photographs herself, photographs Paris, poses alone, photographs her lover and friends. The photographic medium is reinvented, twisted, cut, rephotographed, and inhabited. The image becomes an object ; the object becomes a story.
The possibilities offered by the medium serve entirely the declaration of love, sensual tension, giving, and exchange. The words are those of painful absence and exalted passion. The images are kissed with red lipstick, covered with words of love and longing. For Fernanda, photography becomes a skin to touch, a mouth to kiss, words to hear, and an expectation so long that time seems to be deposited on every grain of these tiny prints.
Anne Delrez is supported by the Grand Est Region for this project.
Hôtel La Louisiane
Nestled amid chaos, freedom, and seemingly nonsensical yet precious chatter, Hôtel La Louisiane has built its unique identity at 60 Rue de Seine, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Since the days of Rimbaud and Verlaine, artists, creators, and travelers seeking wonder have stayed for brief visits or residencies. Among those who have lived there are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Juliette Gréco, Lucian Freud, Albertine Sarrazin, Syd Barrett, Keith Haring, Quentin Tarantino, and other contemporary figures to whom Hôtel La Louisiane owes its discretion.
La Conserverie, un lieu d’archives
Dedicated to family photography, La Conserverie is a repository of vernacular images that serves as a hub for exchanges, lectures, and scholarly articles. It is a reference point both for the study of amateur photography and as a tool for sociological and ethnographic research. La Conserverie preserves this panorama of images and histories overshadowed by digital technologies, bringing these photographs into contemporary thought by cultivating and activating a living archive.