Pictura Gallery

Francine Fleischer

Swim

In the modern world, so thoroughly documented, there is little chance to photograph a truly new subject. But there will always be the human form, born in ever-new iterations. And we are continually fascinated with these fellow beings and our own creatureliness.

Francine Fleischer opens a peep hole into a mystical pool, a telescope we can look through without disturbing the subjects, youths and adults alike, in childlike, frog-like, gleeful play. The water is an equalizer- where all bodies despite age, physical ability, or disability experience a moment of effortless weightlessness. There is an unmeditated ease built into these forms. They are graceful, unguarded, amphibious, refreshingly unsexualized, unselfconscious creature formations, skimming the wet black surface.

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