In La nuit dorée, Orleans blends archival material from the era—film, fashion, and music—alongside her experiments in painting, film, photography, and text. Using her signature collage technique, she crafts an audiovisual, retro portrait of 1960s Paris nightlife. The visuals combine archival night scenes with fragments filmed during her own night walks during her residency at Cité des arts internationale, capturing moments from the historic Marais quartier, the heart of medieval Paris. Together, these elements create a layered, nostalgic journey into a golden era of French art and culture.
“…coming on in the shadows like a Gallic Nico, while iconic images of French cinema zipped by, lovers from Godard’s Pierrot le Fou spilling into Tati’s Playtime, undercut by images of rioting in Paris from the Algerian War to May ’68 always threatening to break through the grand illusion.” Clash Magazine
