Influenced as early as the 90’s by electronic music creative methods, RBW uses her camera as a sampler to collect thousands of images as fragments of reality, especially cities, and compose or construct with them, analog and digital image architectures (photo-montages, animations, installations and stories).

Each research-creation steps of her Image Lab addresses specific questions, such as the value of images in a data deluge context ; the speculative power of the image, and the fluidity of its border between reality and fiction in the post-truth paradigm ; the poetic and imaginary character of the city, or else its constructivist and abstract dimension ; the formation of subjective image bubbles as parallel universes ; the spatial dimension of images in relation to the rise of metaverses, these now habitable image-spaces ; the rise of an autonomous and smart data-sphere, a world of images, and a hypothetical Republic of Images…

Then returning to the roots of her lab, urban photography (and urban passion), RBW experiments since 2015 some “performative photography” sequences (called action shooting) in the public space, where the camera becomes a protagonist on the set. These experiences allow to explore the relation to digital devices, attention mechanisms and ecology, or the making of individual, collective and urban identities.  They also radically disrupt photographic conventions and intentions.

All these experiences feed the productions and future research of her Idea Lab (diagrams, installations, publications, conferences and collaborations), which may include a web-based image curation.

Exhibitions: French Institute of Architecture, La Villette Park, Colette boutique, Paris Project Room, France Fiction gallery, Atelier Martel Architecture, Forde gallery (Geneva), Corner College (Zurich), Over Gaden Art Center (Copenhagen), Hannah Barry gallery (London), Apex Art (NY), Paris Triennale, Maison Folie Wazemme Lille 2004.

Publications: Cahiers Européens de l’Imaginaires, Nuke Review, Magazine, Chronic’art Magazine, Bad To The Bone Review, Pylône Review (Bruxelles), Susch Muzeum Magazine (Suisse), or literature platform d-fiction.fr