Flâneries
“Flâneries” is an ongoing photographic exploration of the human impact on our landscape. The exhibition title, a nod to Lisanti’s childhood spent growing up in Paris, refers to her own wanderings and wonderings. Like Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur (typically a male urban wanderer, observer), Lisanti wandered the streets, drawing inspiration from what could be seen. Rather than the urban flâneur observing and capturing a vibrant city and its people, these photographs show uncanny and often desolate suburban and cityscapes that might otherwise pass unnoticed. For this exhibition, she chose a limited number of images, taken over the course of two years in eighteen cities within three countries as a brief overview of the many sites that have marked her and the locations she discovered, to expose everyday sites that might normally go unseen, surprising juxtapositions, and images that would not have been conventionally considered art.
At once evoking and transgressing expectations about street photography and art, the images simultaneously engage in multiple conversations, visual, aesthetic, and social. One of the questions the series asks and answers is how Lisanti, as a woman photographer, sees and presents the world around her. The series takes up questions of gender politics and their role in art, and it very pointedly rethinks street photography by focusing less on humans in the street than the traces of what they leave behind as captured and curated by the ever-present but also absent female street photographer. Evoking Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), “Flâneries” engages with what is worthy of representation in society, as well as the incongruous place of women in modern life.
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