photo basel 2022

Chervine was born in 1972 in Iran. He grew up in Paris and moved to New York in 2008. As a self-taught photographer, he trains himself during his numerous trips around the world and began to work for the press and fashion. Since 2015, he developed a personal work, photographing the city and the scenes that take place in it: a woman looks at the sun, a couple discusses in front of a café, a mother and her daughter cross the road, these anodyne moments, the photographer sublimates them with a chiaroscuro that dramatizes the scene and plunges us into a cinematographic imaginary.

In FLORE’s work, memory acquires a unique temporality, oscillating between reminiscence and becoming. Her work is haunted by memory, a tentative reconstruction of a childhood lost, while also creating a time of becoming through an imagination that is unceasingly reborn, like a thread between Indochina and Morocco. Breaking beyond the bounds of the photographic medium, FLORE’s works manifest a particularly rich exploration of plasticity. Heliogravures, pigment prints of Polaroids, silver gelatine prints, marouflage on gold: each series proceeds by integrating and recomposing representations of fleeting moments which, in spite of their diversity, tell a coherent story.