KOS

"This work offers an abstract view of Deauville, mixing faux landscapes with poetic moments and mysterious light. I have drawn upon forgotten memories, feelings of longing, lost potential and the melancholy of a romantic visit to Deauville many years ago as well as this recent experience. The "landscapes" seem immediately identifiable as part of Deauville's identity, reinforced on both sides, from impressionist paintings to postcards. Yet they are small details captured in familiar spaces like the painted doors of the bathhouse, the velvet furniture of the Norman Hotel* and a window of the Olympic pool. Here, notions of what is (or may have been) real, and what is not, visually intertwine as a single memory experience. "