Montreal, Canada, 2017

In Petals and Pavement: City Reflections, Panizza Allmark invites viewers into a contemplative space where the organic and the industrial collide. Through her lens, the city is not merely a backdrop but a living archive of contradictions—where softness emerges from steel, and the ephemeral resists the permanent.

This exhibition explores the uncanny presence of the feminine within urban environments. Flowers—real or symbolic—appear not as decorative elements but as quiet acts of resistance, blooming defiantly through cracks in concrete, mirrored in glass facades, or lingering in the shadows of forgotten alleys. These petals are not passive; they are witnesses, provocateurs, and echoes of a deeper narrative reflective of the significance of the association of flowers with the feminine.

Allmark’s work challenges the viewer to reflect on what is seen and what is overlooked. Her photographs blur the boundaries between public and private, nature and architecture, memory and immediacy. In doing so, she reclaims the city as a space of feminine presence and poetic disruption.

Petals and Pavement is not just a visual journey—it is a meditation on visibility, fragility, and the quiet power of reflection. (Co-authored by Copilot!)