ENTRY DESCRIPTION
When the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts announced the theme of sub-Saharan Africa as a subject of study, I took the time to think. Having not been to this continent, I must explore it from other angles.
I construct the common thread of my photo series which takes its source in the most archaic way possible: where do I look for the emblematic animals of Africa - and for the most part endangered? As I can't bring myself to go to the zoo, I head towards the Great Gallery of Evolution. Taxidermy seems mortiferous to me but at least these animals are no longer suffering.
I opt for black and white photos because there is no more life here, just a simulacrum of expressions. I linger on these skins, shapes, textures, graphics and these glass eyes that reflect the electric lighting.
I dream of the desert, of photo safaris (naturally),…
AUTHOR
I am a photographer, actress, author and filmmaker trained at the École des Gobelins, at Zoom’Up and at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts. At the beginning of 2023, I joined the Association of Artists of Loir et Cher and in 2024 the Wilson Art Gallery in Blois. From now on I entrust my works to the artistic agent Barbara Lebron Blanchet.
The Presence.
Through my job as an actress, I have been exploring this idea of “Presence” for a long time. It’s an intuition that isn’t necessarily palpable and yet it’s there! The skin, the bark, or even the mist or the smoke then become the first visual contact of an incarnation, its envelope. This sensory experience is divided into subject, object and landscape. I photograph what I see. Which means everything that is not me. Even my reflection is not me.
The Meantime.
I subscribe to slowness, I might as well make it a strength and consider that I am contemplative. My subjects also bears witness to other temporalities.
Or the time “that it takes” for my wanderings in research towards serendipity, exoduses, transformation and resilience, the time to tame the “Other”…
Either from another temporal dimension towards the ghosts of the past and the future or in that of Mother Nature: the Ents watch us and we rarely hear them because we have to slow down.
I assert the idea of highlighting the transformations and other singularities that I can see. I particularly like codes to better question them, transgress them, even play from the margins.I like to think that there is something serious and playful at the same time floating in my world. Film noir flirts with the land of fairy tales.
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