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January 15, 2015January 21, 2015Adina Ruiu

Le café-roulette

Captured by the camera on what was probably an extraordinarily quiet morning of 1911, the terrace of this café displayed an arrangement of chairs and prices suggestive of a flattened roulette table. It’s as if this moment of strange stillness more than 100 years ago was gambling its own preservation… and it won. The source for […]

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November 25, 2014Adina Ruiu

Parapluies après la pluie

Potentiellement pléthorique (image 1) dans les prés urbains, le parapluie déploie ses plis plus ou moins en rapport avec l’objet de son préfixe. Se rebellant contre sa propre insoutenable légèreté, il se plait parfois à s’imaginer en plante pérenne (images 2 et 3). Même relégué aux poubelles, il s’accroche à sa verticalité: sublime drapeau de […]

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