Overview
Flowers Gallery is pleased to return for the 25th edition of Paris Photo, with works by Edward Burtynsky, Elger Esser, Gabby Laurent, Simon Roberts, Esther Teichmann and Lorenzo Vitturi
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Gabby Laurent
From Gabby Laurent's ongoing series of sculptural works Masks, these works show the artist dressed in suits made of carpet, tights and upholstery stuffing, with only her eyes showing. Created after becoming a mother, they contain ideas of domesticity in the materials used but with the duality of protection and aggression in the form and pose.
Lorenzo Vitturi
The starting point of Italian artist Lorenzo Vitturi's series Caminantes (2017-) was the artist’s mixed heritage. In the 1960s, his father crossed the Atlantic Ocean to open a Murano glass factory in Peru, where he met Vitturi’s mother. This collection of images and sculptures comprise of objects and materials that the artist selected during his travels between the two countries, including Murano glass, Peruvian textiles, earth and landscape substances and shipping materials. Combined into sculptures and arrangements, which sometimes incorporate his own body, these elements embody a symbolism that speaks of both personal stories and local cultures.
Edward Burtynsky
Elger Esser
Simon Roberts
From Simon Roberts' Beneath the Pilgrim Moon (2021) series, this image is part of a collection of photographs taken at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum while it was closed to the public in the second COVID-19 lockdown. Photographing the marble sculptures housed in the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries, which at the time were covered for their protection during the site’s renovation, Roberts conceived of the veiled statues as metaphors for our wider experience of the pandemic.
