$53.32
- Softcover
- 172 pages
- 236 x 300 mm
- ISBN 9791096383528
- French, English, Arabic
- Jun 2025
Moving through suspended landscapes, Florence Cuschieri encounters the wandering exiles. In the forests of the Alps, they inscribe their trajectory.
Florence Cuschieri captures these traveled paths, where tangible wandering dissolves into the silence of the surroundings. The mountain, the forest, the fir trees—each becomes a vessel cradling vulnerable exiled bodies who have found refuge at Chez Marcel, a self-managed space in the French Hautes-Alpes near Briançon. The land she photographs appears suspended in a state of latency, echoing the waiting of those who tread upon it. Their footsteps carve circles into the ground, mirroring the swirling flight of swallows.
Florence Cuschieri is a Franco-Maltese visual artist and author. Through a multidisciplinary practice combining photography, text, archives, installation, and oral storytelling, she explores the deep connections between memory and forgetting, identity and exile, the personal and the political. Inspired by her Maltese roots and fragments of "forgotten stories"—often personal and familial—she gives voice to marginalized narratives and examines social fractures through a documentary and poetic approach.
Her work, where body and voice, image and word intersect, is driven by a desire for emancipation and transmission. It has been published in M Le Monde, Der Greif, Gaze Magazine, and exhibited at numerous international festivals, such as Encontros da Imagem (Portugal), Revela’t (Spain), and the Athens Photo Festival (Greece). She won the Prix Jeune Photographie Occitanie – Images Singulières in 2021. In 2024, she was awarded the Regards du Grand Paris commission with the CNAP and Ateliers Médicis and received the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award. Published in 2025, La Ronde des hirondelles is her first book.
