Miriam Stanke

"Initially inspired by the ideas of the Impressionist painters, the series explores the polarity of beauty. It plays with the human feeling, always inclined to reach perfection. By exploring the artificial social success that this seaside town carries with it and its contradictions in terms of its everyday beauty, Deauville finally comes to life, not through its ideal but through its moments of imperfection - the contrast of lifeless fairy-tale places, ordinary moments, and nature that finally takes over. The city's appeal seems to lie in this mutual coexistence: that of the interplay between wild life and the repetition of ordinary moments of life, which force the passerby to pause and observe this beauty that turns out to be almost perfect as much as it is unrealistically artificial."