Florentine

This is a serie of portraits of a lady called Florentine Stein. Florentine is a grand figure, she is the genius, she is the prima ballerina, she is the great thinker and the mythical circus artist . Florentine is a very old woman who lived her life during the twentieth century. In images that appear to be taken from the Florentines photo album, we see glimpses from her life. Florentine looks back, her mental state and solitude allow imaginary friends to enter this rich long life story. It is unclear what is real and what is hallucinations and fantasy figures. What is a memory, what is a fantasy, what is real? Are the magic moments made up in Florentine ́s head? Where in time are we? Sometime in the 60´s or far in the future? Sometimes past and future meld in these works. In some of them a moment expands into eternity.