Palímpsēstos Florae draws its essence from an ancient word: παλίμψηστος, “scraped again to be rewritten.” Like manuscripts erased and reinscribed through the centuries, the objects taken from Christie’s catalogues are reborn here in another form. Their stories, once frozen, become moving — in perpetual metamorphosis. This living palimpsest celebrates the power of the feminine: a fertile memory, a fluid presence, rooted in nature.

The feminine figures — timeless muses and sources of inspiration for countless works — find here a new freedom. Cut from the pages, they slip out of their frames to reinvent themselves, to embody themselves fully. Palímpsēstos Florae honors the sensitivity, the strength, and the grace that women have always brought to the history of art — an essential, fertile, constantly evolving presence.

The title evokes Flora, Roman goddess of spring, flowering, and fertility, guardian of renewal and vital impulse. She embodies here the rebirth of a feminine breath — powerful and organic, carrying transformation. The objects transform. The past recomposes itself. A dancing form emerges — half tree, half ghost, incarnation of a rewritten time. It is memory reinscribed. A trace in transformation. A feminine breath in perpetual germination.