our wild lives

Ayline Olukman composes her photographs with the rigor of a classical painter. In her studio, she stages bodies and still lifes. Outdoors, she builds landscapes like scenery. A staircase down to the sea awaits her extras. Time stops, splendor erodes. Further, a group of parrots freeze forever, lost in the artificial glow of a diorama. A flamingo spreads its wings and turns into a chimera. A man sinks for eternity into a forest lost in the fog. Plants dry up and fossilize. Ethereal hues paint a fantasy world, a strange and impenetrable dream. The artist gives us a fragmentary, naturalistic and sensual story.