Ho(m)mes
My work focuses on the perception of reality through the photographic medium around two axes of reflection:
- photography as proof of truth, through its mechanical process
- photography and the present moment, which records what is at the moment of triggering.
In fact, all my work seeks to go against these two axioms.
I use cognitive biases, a legacy of our culture and education, to allow an appearance to be perceived, so that the viewer can find himself in what he sees.
I built this series like a documentary, but what interests me here are the interactions between the material presented (images and texts), the viewer and me. I question a kind of collective experience, so that everyone can recognize a part of themselves.
In this project, I was interested in the smallest division of the territory, the house, as an expression of an individuality. So I looked in the homes for signs of the character of their inhabitant, each one thus leaving his mark on the world. Each image of a home is completed with an interior view that will be attributed to the owner of the house. Finally, for each diptych, a short text recalls some stages in the life of the inhabitant of the place.
In fact, the interior views were taken at the photographer’s home, a link is then established between the author and the subject, a common personality trait, and by transitivity between the author and the viewer. The text is partly invented, partly autobiographical or anchored in reality.
It is therefore a documentary fiction.
