The exhibition, open until May 4th, explores her meticulous approach of selection and collection, reworking and reactivating Japanese photographs from the Yokohama school (Yokohama Shashin). The original photographs, collected over twenty years by the artist and exhibited at MAO for the first time, are displayed alongside the works of Linda Fregni Nagler, who rephotographed the original albumen prints, printing them in the darkroom and coloring them by hand using a technique similar to that of the time (1860-1910). This intervention gives new meanings to the images, illustrating the history of a specific way of looking at exoticism and otherness.

The subject investigated at MAO is that of flower sellers (hanauri), a highly appreciated category of street vendors (bōtefuri) in Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods.