Elements

2014

15 photographs. Shooting (lomography) et editing on baryta paper and collage.

Size : 11 x 11 in on paper 12 x 16 in.

Size of the triptyches : each image : 7,87 x 7.87 in ; with frame: 10,82 x 26,57 in.

At what exact moment do we make a  photograph?

The series of self-portraits "Elements" seeks to answer this question by implementing a physical
experiment in which I am no longer contained by my body. The need to invade other spaces has
become urgent. It is here that possibilities of being divided or transferred into another form unfold. By way of reflections, layering and immersion, my true proportions finally take form. Once beside myself, outside of the tight, enclosed space, the photographic act can spread onto paper and towards other spaces. The test strip simultaneously completes and interferes with the print alongside which it is displayed by obstructing it and returning it to its original state of photographic material. This fragment is placed in front of the final image, hiding certain areas - the same zones that concern the shooter to such an extent that he carries out preliminary tests. The fragmented zones are too light, too dark, sometimes illegible, and yet it is impossible to resist reorganizing them visually. Beyond the image and meaning, the invitation to become part of the process becomes essential. Using these small test strips, failed and incomplete, I attempt to reveal the true dimensions of my photography. At what exact moment do we make a  photograph? This work answers that photography is not a matter of moments but one of process. The multiple, fragmented images of this series have no definitive form, they are made and remade each time we look at or handle them.

exhibition of Eléments at l’ancien musée de la peinture for le Mois de la Photo de Grenoble 2018.

Exposition infiniment Humain, Maison Robert Doisneau, GentillY,2016;

photos de Romain Darnaud