"Streets and faces, the city surrounds that the motorized civilisation has rendered classless, gatherings of friends and families, places to stroll : here in France or elsewhere, far away in China or closer to home in Israel, Marie-Noëlle Boutin succeeds in developing a realistic representation without reverting to the aggressive signs of a contemporary world caricatured at will. This work is a reading of shapes and signs by the means of defamiliarization : building up an observation of the world that highlights what proximity and habit tend to  dissimulate. Situations deprived of anecdote but sculpted in a light that celebrates their vitality, a minute consecration of spaces generally repressed in the imagery of communication, attentive to the calmness of beings : Marie-Noëlle Boutin describes a fragile state of peace." […]