Géraldine Lay
‘Les failles ordinaires’
Galerie Château d’Eau, Toulouse
3.5.2012 - 25.6.2012
Between 2005 and 2010, I regularly visited various countries in Northern Europe: Finland, and Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Russia. I had the feeling I was still in my former familiar universe but at the same time also plunged into a strang and extraordinary world.
This series comprise selections of urban portraits, found objects and landscapes. I photographed passers-by as if they were actors in a scene, the locations resembling film sets. My imagination created a kind of narrative fiction, establishing connections between the various cities. The passers-by seem to play an indefinite part, as if each had begun living a fleeting dream. These faces, encountering each other, fade behind the parts which my imagination had assigned to them ; the street became an open space, a place for real human comedy.
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