Photographic collage from the series Echoes of Time
This contemporary collage by the visual artist Frédérique Stern, shows a female figure delicately cut out and placed on the edge of a riverside path in Paris. Though she appears to be gazing at the water, her interior reveals a layered cityscape—facades, balconies, and staircases—evoking the presence of a lived or imagined memory. The outline, defined yet open, connects rather than isolates. It becomes a threshold between outer experience and inner architecture. Frédérique Stern invites us to a moment of stillness, where personal history merges with the timeless rhythm of the urban landscape.