POST FLORAL
BY Studio NUE & Gabrielle Vigier
THIS PROJECT WAS BORN FROM THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE FLORAL STUDIO NUE AND PHOTOGRAPHER GABRIELLE VIGIER. AS NUE INCREASINGLY RECEIVES BRIEFS COMPOSED OF AI-GENERATED IMAGES FROM CLIENTS, IT BEGAN TO QUESTION THE NATURE OF THESE VISUAL PROPOSALS.
What often emerges feels closer to what could be described as a form of floral aberration. Despite their imaginative intent, these artificial images frequently lack a sensory anchor. Even when shaped by a human mind, they tend to appear unrooted – as if arising from nowhere, without the subtle interweaving that characterizes the living world. By reclaiming the notion of floral aberration, the studio chose to craft hybrid flowers by hand, while Gabrielle Vigier approached them photographically at close range, exploring their natural, almost textile materiality and their delicate, cut-like forms.
These strange flowers, born from an intimate physical process, are composed of butterfly wings collected only after the insects’ natural death, then patiently assembled one by one. Suspended between the vegetal and the animal – and at times the mineral – this poetic metamorphosis invites a renewed, sensitive connection to the cycles of life, where birth, death, and renewal are intertwined.
Within these photographs, where blur meets sharp detail, black and white converses with color, negative with positive, aberration becomes both a playground and a tangible space for creation – a space where the gaze draws closer, almost touching, and where craftsmanship restores to reality a depth the digital world sometimes tends to erase.
