Acedia, 2015-ongoing
Acedia : State of pain and affliction linked to a lack of motivation, a weariness and disenchantment. From the point of view of Christianity, acedia is a fault. It was when I stumbled upon Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov in my mother’s library that laziness became the guiding thread of my practice.
It is first of all a way to produce my own work since it is the time outside of work when I can recover my time to reinvest it freely as I choose. It is also a posture that I adopt since I intervene little on the real, in order to reveal only decontextualized fragments of it. It is thus by leaning over my doubts and my scattered dreams, by photographing what intrigues me, what instinctively attracts me, random elements that are significant and insignificant but which find no other link than a kind of daily chance, that I have constructed this set of images. My mind wanders, gets lost, concentrates on an element, gives it importance and resumes its movement.
Finally, this subject has also become a motif for study. In most of the images, they are non-events where the signs of an era remain discreet. The laziness, inhabited by these characters, proposes to translate a refusal of life as it is given to live, a search for freedom, or a space for introspection.
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