Certainly, Isabelle Seilern has an eye for the visual, the subtle, the fined, and the delicate. But that’s among other things. Certainly, she also has an eye for music since regardless of her subjects – light on water or tiles, puddles that tremble with a footstep, viewers choosing their place at a show, or elsewhere, a regatta’s sculls, etc. – she captures and gives rhythm to what is happening, who is passing by, and grabs our attention along the way. And how does this grab us? By the music of the reflection, by the waves given off by everyone and everything.

In all things, and once again (because I would like to say what is so obvious with this photographer) Isabelle Seilern has the poetry for the apparently banal, showing that there is the extraordinary in the ordinary should one pay attention. How does she get our attention? Precisely through the reflection, which creates a lateral vision that illuminates, that reveals what is present. Display windows, sidewalks, streets to follow, faded asphalt, unpolished glass, neon lights in the rain – as many different things for the lens to focus on, for a shot that crystalizes, condenses and liquefies.