The Structural Series is built on the Art Deco hotels of Ocean Drive. The style was born in 1920s Paris, the city where Charlotte Fonne's eye was formed. Its largest concentration stands in Miami Beach, where she has lived a few blocks away since 2012.
Each work is one hotel, layered from many of her own photographs, chosen from what she remembers of it. The facade stays intact. She does not stretch or reshape a building. The series is a testimony to how these hotels look, and the layers depend on the geometry staying exact.
Around the facade, and over it, is what she sees every time she walks in South Beach: palm trees, umbrellas, people on the beach, the light on the water. The building is the fact. Everything around it is how she keeps the place. In several works the hotel's name appears twice, once on the building and once large across the frame. It is the one detail you can't miss. When you think of the place later, the name comes back big.
The series invites the viewer to find an era still standing, and around it the life that never stopped.
