Mon travail

COEXISTENCE-FRAGMENTS – EN

 I couldn’t ignore the existence of and the violence suffered by these exposed and unveiled bodies. A series of photographs of body « fragments » enabled me to pursue my approach. My aim was to take care of these bodies. I had nothing left to hide. But how could I avoid drawing the viewer into a form of voyeurism once again? Projecting the body parts onto a shroud was an attempt at « revoilement ».

As the fabric and its folds merge with the grain of the skin, the attempt ends in the impossibility of covering these bodies. And yet, paradoxically, these fragments come to clothe the fabric, contrary to Gaétan De Clérambault’s approach: fascinated by the hidden and the secret, he sought to discover what lay behind the veil…

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