In this exhibition I bring together photographs shot in three different places in Paris.

All photos share a common word describing a happy incident, an unexpected event: Serendipity, a word as long as the flow of a river in spring, full of surprises. Common things we pass by daily without noticing, can get a different meaning, an instant of grace when captured.

The still lives were taken on a film set: L'affiche rouge by Robert Guédiguian. A film about the foreign resistance in Paris during the nazi occupation, 1942 - 1945.

In images from a contemporary construction site, sometimes I used blurs to show the poetry of inanimate object compositions, expressing how a piece of rope, a fence or a few wood blocks can become subjects in the eye of the beholder, instead of functional items or trash abandoned on the ground.

In The repetition, the gestures of three young dancers had an exceptional intensity. They dance as if they are praying, possessed, in a trance. In these photos I tried to capture the essence, the spirit flamenco.

If I had to define these three bodies of work in one sentence it would be:
all things have the meaning we attribute them.

- Dana Ramon Kapelian