KVT’s January Briefs… Maia Flore’s Fabrications @ L’Espace

Challenging the mundane

Once a year at least the French give us a glimpse into delightful Gallic improbabilities and this year they give us young, prize winning photographer Maia Flore and one review describes her work as being inspired by what she perceives as the boundaries between reality and unreality… believing that one way to challenge the mundane everyday is to reveal surprises in it.

Another reviewer says that her world is a complete fabrication, full of touching and enchanting narrations-often surrealistic

Mostly it seems that she uses herself as a model…

…though sometimes not:

For those, like me, who find her work whimsically more-ish then I recommend a long look into the folios on her website or this link

Most of the photographs exhibited at L’Espace are from this folio

One of my favorites (and that’s a hard call) is this one of female legs descending?ascending? a rope at the Pope’s palace in Avignon

And I just couldn’t stop giggling about this one (unfortunately my photo of Maia’s photo) of a couple with popcorn in the front row of a church. All interpretations are enormously entertaining

HER work has been compelling enough for her to be contracted to a prestigious advertising agency… hence this piece for Cartier

For a viewing experience that’s pure delight just go to L’Espace until Jan 31