Diaphane, 2019-2021
Bodies are eternally adorned with a second skin, sometimes in the form of clothing, sometimes in the form of the photographer’s gaze. As photographic objectivity remains a myth, the photographer dresses the photographed with his gaze. From now on, he or she directs the viewer towards something other than what is given to see. The gaze outside the frame, an ancillary story, the beginnings of something out of time. The result is a double contemplation, as the image becomes a “window on”.
The stoicism of the bodies rests on their disquieting strangeness. The transparency of their gaze only reveals an even greater escape, a mysterious opacity. Splitting and separating the spaces of representation that surround the photographic image, creating passages and roundabouts with the aim of accepting the impossibility of a naked body, like a naked image, appearing on its own, not betraying itself. A totally limpid, transparent image.
A scene is revealed through a fleeting image. The body as actor in this scene takes its place in the image. A protagonist, but not the only one, I’d like it to become the scene itself, to embody the photographic image through its presence. This presence is first and foremost material, hence the importance of the gesture, the posture and its inscription in space: What space do we occupy in our environment?
The body is only passing through the image, like an imprint. A silent imprint.
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