Gaelle S. Warner is a French visual artist and photographer based in Paris. She transforms urban spaces into palimpsests, layering the traces of successive eras and usages. She explores these environments to bring to light a reality interwoven with contradictions, revealing how architecture tells our human stories.
The artist has developed an artistic protocol based on assemblage and collage, in which the image ceases to be a record and becomes a critical tool. Her photographs are arranged in grid-like matrices that evoke the orthogonal layout of American cities.
Gaelle’s compositions evoke counter-spaces where the photographs form a fragmented syntax, subject to effects of rhythm and rupture. The assembly of these fragments gives rise to a new urban geography.
