The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, designed by Jean Nouvel, is represented in this series through photographs taken across multiple visits between 2001 and 2017, using a range of techniques—from 35mm color slides and black-and-white film to medium-format negatives, and later the Fuji X100. The building’s defining feature is its delicate composition of sliding panes of glass and slender steel elements, creating layers of transparency that allow the structure to almost disappear into its surroundings. Rather than asserting itself, the architecture dissolves, reflecting sky, vegetation, and passing life in a constantly shifting visual field.

Set among heavier, solid stone buildings, the Fondation Cartier appears deliberately non-contextual, yet this contrast enhances its presence as a refined and understated intervention. It reads as a small gem within the urban fabric—elegant, precise, and quietly experimental. The photographs capture this sense of lightness and immateriality, where boundaries blur and architecture becomes less an object than an atmosphere, defined by reflection, transparency, and subtle spatial layering.