Fleurs De Peau : Skin Flowers (Relié)

In the practice of Dr. X, a dermatologist in Lyon in the early thirties, surface rugged men with bizarre life stories: foreign legionnaires, ex-convicts, artists and sailors. They are all tattooed all over their bodies. The doctor and amateur photographer, who likes to take photos of flowers and landscapes at weekends, was fascinated by the skin illustrations he saw, not as clinical cases but as "secret" works of art. Their diversity, their expressivity and also their particularly ephemeral nature pushed him to set up a private "imaginary museum" of the skin.