Flore: L'Odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin

This book is now available for pre-order. Shipping will begin on 18 November. 

PRIX NADAR 2020

L'Odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin follows on from FLORE’s book, Distant Memories (Éditions Contrejour, 2016), which offered a reinterpretation of Marguerite Duras’s youth in Indochina.

In this book, the artist FLORE draws on her childhood memories and the stories of her grandparents —who lived during the same period and in the same places as Marguerite Duras— to uncover unfathomable mysteries that fuel what she now feels is a shared imagination between herself and the writer. Short excerpts from Marguerite Duras’s writings serve as a counterpoint to the black-and-white photographs toned with tea. Through these technical processes, the artist both shapes and recreates the world unfolding before her eyes, extracting images that confront the fragility of memories and photography’s ability to create a truth truer than reality itself.

Text in French.