FLORE's Intimate Egypt: Polaroid Memories Meet Ancient Artifacts at Musée de Picardie

The Franco-Spanish photographer FLORE presents a deeply personal exhibition at the Musée de Picardie, juxtaposing her Polaroid-based works with ancient Egyptian artifacts. Her series emerged from a return to Egypt forty years after her childhood there, capturing not monuments but the sensory experience of light and scent. Using Polaroid as a medium of ephemerality, she creates pigment prints with a pearly, veiled quality that echoes the passage of time. These contemporary images dialogue with 3,000-year-old mummies and the coffin of Setjaimengaou, acquired in 1839 during Egyptomania. The exhibition highlights two human attempts at eternity: ancient preservation techniques and photographic memory. FLORE's work connects to early photographic expeditions like those of Maxime Du Camp in 1839, yet shifts focus from documentation to internal experience. She personally prints her works with painterly gestures, creating material connections between pigment patina and linen bandages. The show runs until January 3, 2027, at the museum's former Egyptian rooms in Amiens.