Passage obscur, 2022
Photography : archival pigment print · 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch · Ready to hang
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60 x 40 x 0.1 cm 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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70 x 50 x 3 cm 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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This photograph captures a suspended moment in the Parisian metro, in Pigalle. Facing the movement of a train, a silhouette remains still, creating an immediate tension between presence and passage.
The blur transforms the carriage into an almost pictorial surface, crossed by green, light, and reflections, while the deep red of the clothing anchors the figure in the composition. The Pigalle sign precisely locates the scene, but the movement disturbs this familiar reality and makes it tilt towards something more ambiguous.
Between immobility and speed, sharpness and dissolution, Passage Obscur explores the way an ordinary moment can become strange when it is torn from the continuous flow of the city. The figure seems both fully present and on the verge of disappearing.
Through this work, Bianca Cassandre uses the blur not as an erasure, but as a visual language allowing to explore perception, movement, and the fleeting nature of the urban experience.
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m² paper, presented with matting in a black aluminum Nielsen frame.
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Bianca Cassandre is a photographer born in New York and based in Paris, whose practice lies between documentary instinct and artistic abstraction. Working mainly in the street, she uses movement, light, and intentional blur to transform fleeting encounters into images that oscillate between the recognizable and the indeterminate.
Holding a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Image-making from Paris College of Art, she sees photography less as a recording of the visible than as an exploration of perception and memory, being interested as much in what an image can suggest or leave suspended as in what it shows.
Bianca's work was the subject of a four-page report in the magazine, highlighting her distinctive use of intentional blur and movement. Her professional background also includes assignments around the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Her works have been exhibited at the Bastille Design Center, Les Frigos and The Muisca Gallery, as well as at DCS Contemporary in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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