Fleur Delaville

Maison Trouble is a book about the last time I visited my childhood home before my parents sold it. To sell it, the house was renovated and emptied, transforming it into something really far from the half-finished home I grew up in. I wanted to capture this transitional state and made a series of 10 photographs, one room at a time. Each photographs are printed twice: one is a regular print, and the other is a print made from the back side of the paper. The backside print gives a softer, slightly blurry image, as a fading memory. They are separated by a half-transparent washi paper, which creates another blurry version of the images. The special edition is bound with screw posts and a hard cover, wrapped in a dark red fabric, to give the feel of a family photo album.

Promenade is the first of a series of flip books from stop motion analogue photographs of my daily life in France. Promenade is the collision of 4 fleeting moments of my friends and regular explorations.

L'impasse et la couleur features black and white analogue photographs on one side and their colour counterparts on the reverse, faintly visible through the paper. Inspired by my grandfather’s hand colored postcard collection, it captures scenes from my hometown just before my parents moved away. The hidden binding invites a quiet unfolding of personal history through images and the material quality of paper.

The Panoramic-Box displays panoramic photographs in an infinite loop. A small hole pierced in the wooden ring reveals only a fragment of the image at a time, which is gradually uncovered as the ring is turned. The images depict narrow street intersections, where depth and perspective shift throughout the loop. By looking through the hole, the viewer takes on the role of a voyeur—drawn into details while the broader context remains just out of reach. The object is a limited edition of 5.

The Viewer-Box is an object to read images on a disc. The viewer can change the picture by rolling the small wooden stick coming out of the box on the front. The images are analogue photographs of the seven mountains of Bergen, which surround the city. Each mountain is framed by buildings and urban elements, placing the viewer inside the city.

Wandering in an unknown area, I took notes of my thoughts. Visual elements, impressions, etc.

I designed the Book-box to allow the reader to read only a line at a time, recreating the feeling of separated thoughts I had as I walked.

In the same way that I didn’t know where I was heading, the reader cannot see the whole text in one glance.

The text’s unfolding evolves in only two directions (forwards and backwards) and constrains the reader to follow the track along with me.

Four A6 and 16 pages booklets. Each of them is made out of two pictures printed on each of an A3 sheet, which was then cut and assembled, juxtaposing fragments that could never have encountered each other otherwise. The images are analogue photographic views of urban landscapes, modestly printed with a copy machine.