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My photographic research began with the series of Taboos, a group of pictures about intangible themes. Fear of not being good enough, wish to lose grip on things, inability to do it... The series of Totems came to supplement this first research. These pictures accompanied me in a personal evolution, these past two years, as well as in my artistic path, as I was discovering, thanks to them, as a self-taught, photography, and the infinite possibilities of digital manipulation.

Each image comes from a visual impression which haunts me for weeks, months, until obsession. The camera allows me to make them hatch, to evacuate them better. It sometimes starts with a colour, as in "The sickness of the to singer", a self-portrait. I continuously saw myself with a green throat. When constructing the image, I suddenly had a need to explore each sense. The cross under the mouth to represent silence, the blindfold on eyes not to see anymore, the ears which cannot hear any more. A need to shut myself away. A friend, by seeing the photograph, screamed "How horrible! It looks like your throat is rotting!". I realized that I was actually going through a difficult time in the field of singing. And only then I understood the image completely.
In "A Singer" (the title can be read both in English, and in French, in which case it means "to ape"), the voice theme came back. A multitude of hands impose their will on this singer whose mouth has become too imposing, disfigured.
"Purificatio" and "No Thing" form a diptych. The first image evokes a tough fight, exhausting, violent, after which a monster was ingested. The second image symbolizes the deliverance which follows, digestion of the monster. Catharsis represented by the flight of butterflies.

The more I look at these pictures, the more I understand what they mean. Sometimes, it takes someone else's input for me to really see what's hidden in these visions. They force myself to look at my own questionning in a very different light, and they help me fight my inner demons.

"In only a single field of our civilization has the omnipotence of thoughts been retained, and that is in the field of art. Only in art does it still happen that a man who is consumed by desires performs something resembling the accomplishment of those desires and that what he does in play produces emotional effects - thanks to artistic illusion - just as though it were something real" (S. Freud, in "Totems & Taboos").

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