In this new series of paintings, presented at the Villa Sauber in Monaco, Latifa Echakhch used the perspective of a cinematographic sequences. The images are taken from old black-and-white and coloured postcards of Monaco’s Exotic Garden. The photographs were projected onto pieces of canvas coated with concrete and the image partially painted. The coating was then broken in previously defined zones. The work was not therefore developed in the manner of a painting but as a performance, through the scraping and removal of the paint layer. This relationship with the matter harmonises with the creation and illusionist laying-out of the exotic garden during the 1930s, in which a setting of rocks was created almost entirely with the use of concrete, which in some way heralded the development of the monegasque cityscape during the reste of the century.