Artist's studio
Original text of the work
Il n'aimait pas être pris en photo. Toute sa vie il avait tenté de dissimuler ses fesses qu'il trouvait plates, de maquer sa bouche derrière une main. Et le reste aussi. Parce que j'ai demandé à mon père s'il me permettait de le photographier une dernière fois et qu'il a murmuré "alors mes mains..."
Parce qu'elles sont en partie cachées.
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Translation of the work in English
He didn't like to have his picture taken. All his life, he had tried to conceal his buttocks which he found flat, to hide his mouth behind his hand. And the rest, too. Because I asked my father if he would allow me to photograph him one last time, and he whispered: “My hands, then…”
Because they are partly hidden.
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Parce que, 2018
Parce que means “because” in French. Each of the artworks composing the series consists in a wooden frame where a photograph is displayed under a curtain embroidered with a sentence explaining the reasons triggering the photographic act. The curtain thus covers the photograph until lifted by the viewer, unveiling the narrative explaining the picture’s origin. Parce que thus reverses the traditional relationship between image and text, and disturbs our conventional perception and processing of information.
Was Bleibt, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany, 2020
Dead End, Chateau Lacoste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, 2018
Dead End, Chateau Lacoste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, 2018