There where you think (installation views at Prospect, Art Rotterdam)

There where you think is part of a larger project by Florence Marceau-Lafleur, in which she explores the 'oceanic sensation': the feeling of being one with the outside world as a whole. As a metaphor for this topic, she uses her side job as an art model. The places represented in these stereoscopes are rooms where she has worked and where the tradition of life drawing is still carried on. 

While this context traditionally stands for a world separating objects from subjects, she observes the way in which an immobile body perceives its environment. Marceau-Lafleur focuses on situations where immobility erases the perception of physical limits and alters the ordinary course of thought. In one of the scenes, she represents her own body scattered over twenty-seven breaths, materializing the result of a thought experiment: ‘How many times do I have to inhale to absorb the volume of my whole body?' A whistle modeled after the nose of Michelangelo's David materializes another 'oceanic' experience. Standing still for extensive periods of time, she imagined that she could breathe with the plaster features displayed on the back wall. 

In the empty studios, Marceau-Lafleur documents an action she has imagined while posing. It results in a collection of places that are both imaginary and concrete—ambiguous, like an ecstatic viewpoint within a naturalistic world.

more about this series: https://boox.space/there-where-you-think