Photographic collage from the series Roots of the Soul

Artwork by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024. Photo collage from the series Roots of the Soul, featuring a female silhouette and a moving wave.
Artwork by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024. Photo collage from the series Roots of the Soul, featuring a female silhouette and a moving wave.
Artwork by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024. Photo collage from the series Roots of the Soul, featuring a female silhouette and a moving wave.
Artwork by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024. Photo collage from the series Roots of the Soul, featuring a female silhouette and a moving wave.

In this contemporary collage by the visual artist Frédérique Stern, the female face merges with a cresting wave, in a composition that captures the tension between calm and inner strength. The cut line acts as a symbolic threshold: the untamed exterior of the sea and the intimate, restrained nature of the human expression. Without a golden seam, but marked by a fracture that suggests contained emotion, the piece becomes a visual echo of what stirs beneath the surface — the soul’s quiet storm. 

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Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a cut-out female silhouette over floral landscape and old path. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024.
Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a cut-out female silhouette with a hat over stone, sky, and classical architecture. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2022.
Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a cut-out female silhouette over an ornate interior and mountain landscape. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2022.
Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a cut-out female silhouette over a flower field and black-and-white urban road. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2020.
Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring intertwined human figures with superimposed black-and-white urban imagery. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024.
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Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a horizontal cut-out over blossoming branches and old urban scene. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2020.
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Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a cut-out female silhouette among blooming trees and an old cityscape. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2024.
Work of fine art photography and collage from the series Echoes of Time, featuring a female silhouette and black-and-white archival photographs over a natural landscape. Poetic work by French visual artist Frédérique Stern, 2023.