FLORIANE DE LASSÉE
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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PUBLICATIONS
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
Ever wonder when strolling a city’s streets, “where’s the man I just passed rushing to?”, “what are the women opposite of me laughing about?” or “why is the couple in that window having a quarrel?”. Don’t we all sometimes catch ourselves mindlessly looking into others people gardens, reading their paper over their shoulders or gazing onto our neighbour’s balcony? A voyeur of modern urban life, Floriane de Lassée (1977) devotes her creativity to capturing such fragments of life; inspired by the density of modern city structures of towering skyscrapers standing face to face. The Parisian born photographer originally studied graphics, later moving to New York to specialise in photography. Upon moving there, similar to when she later moved to Shanghai, she was struck by the Big Apple’s unique architecture, immediately fascinated by its matchless skyline staging a dramatic play of lights. Capturing this enticing luminosity from a quiet, lonely rooftop, every window tells a new story; her long exposures giving rise to images loaded with colour, intensity and life: “A magical colour transformation appears insidiously on my negatives... red, cyan, gold... depending on the film loaded, the outside temperature, the weather, the humidity of the air and the exposure duration. Blue, green, purple... here is the night.” With every click of her shutter she creates a play of countless stages and scenes letting us, like her, be; “the witness of hundreds of individual stories that have no interaction”, taking part in tales we shall never know the beginning or the ending of.
