Les celulles
Current work
Begun in 2023
Black pencil drawings, 20 x 30 cm
Plywood volumes, various sizes
Framed color photographs, 80 x 100 cm
Les cellules consist of a series of drawn projects of architectural modules whose arrangement presents uncertainties as to their spatial apprehension.
Some of these projects are built in volume and then photographed, returning to the flatness of the image.
Drawings, volumes and photographs will be shown together.
Apories (Les perspectives dépravées)
Color framed photographs
64 x 77 cm each
Started in 2018
The Apories project brings to life impossible spaces which appear as coherent images. Each image dismantles the representation of the visible, despite the fact that all the basic textbook rules on perspective have been followed. The constructions are first built in the studio and then photographed. The presence of the models, men, animals or objects clashes with the apparent logic of the represented space and reveals its aberration. Some of the constructions are displayed alongside the pictures.
Annexes
Color photographs
in a variety of sizes and media
The Annexes include photographs produced during or before the development of certain images : preliminary tests; other versions of the same project; location scouting; images for tarpaulin prints.
They constitute a «margin», ancillary images that are nonetheless photographs in themselves, but whose investment is lighter and freer. It is an important part of the work, long kept in the shadows, which is now being shown.
The Annexes are of a heterogeneous nature : a monumental tarpaulin showing a suburban landscape, present in the 7 Metamorphoses, another landscape printed on paper occupying an entire wall (Aporie 5), small scouting landscapes, essays for Aporie 1 and Aporie 4.
Portrait of a man
86 large size colour prints
250 projected pictures
a book
New York / Le Havre, 2011 - 2012
This set makes up a photographic portrait of Rodion Raskolnikov, the hero of Crime and Punishment, a novel by Dostoievski. The first part of this work was executed in New- York during the residency Le Havre/New- York, Two way Looks, from October to December 2011, the second one in my studio in Le Havre, in August 2012.
7 métamorphoses
8 framed colour photographs
165 x 140 cm each
2009 – 2012
8 photographs present the photographer and her model in settings which include other photographs printed on canvas beforehand.
Autoportraits
32 photographs
Varied sizes
2000 – 2006
Self-portrait is nobody’s portrait. Unless any photograph were a self-portrait: the present picture of a place and moment by which the photographer gives proof of his presence “here and now” and substitutes the issue of knowing who we are to that of our presence to the world.
Here the self-portrait becomes the work of a closed system. Part of the photographic plan, the photographer’s body gets caught and exposes itself to a delicate situation: standing facing oneself.
Systèmes de classement
8 photographic works
1994 - 1998
The 8 photographic works that make up Les systèmes de classement, follow precise conceptual programs (inventories, devices). These theoretical objects find their translation in visual systems built in a loop, closed in on themselves.
7 natures mortes (reliques)
6 black and white photographs on fiber based paper
180 x120 cm each
1994
In the early 1990s, my work consisted in shooting meal left overs. The triviality of the models avoided any assumption that they could be the subject of it.
The series then entitled « 7 natures mortes » made up of 6 large size photographs a smaller seventh one, dates from that time. Following an exhibition, the photographs were stored in a damp place. They were showing some mouldy stains and orangey haloes appeared that were gradually erasing the picture. This destructive process altered the status and subject of the photographs : they have become relics.
Tiroir droit du meuble de la cuisine
Le Havre - Décembre 94
(51 natures mortes)
51 black and white photographs on fiber based paper
30 x 30 cm each
1993
A photographic inventory of all the objects contained in a kitchen drawer has been made. The objects were grouped together according to the things they had in common which would differ from a photograph to the other one, whether they would belong to the same person, or have a formal likeness, or similar functions, etc. A short tautological explanation is engraved on a metal strip which is fastened to the frame of each picture.
Le déménagement, 13 rue Collard
109 black and white photographs on fiber based paper
24 x 30 cm each
1995
An inventory composed of 109 photographs of a flat being emptied of its contents. Once removed, the objects were systematically put on the doorstep while the camera was set on the landing.
Damnatio memoriae
5 colour photographs
20 x 30 cm each
About one hundred booklets
1997
The photographer appealed to a writer for a text while stating that it would become unreadable once photographed because of the joint effect of the light and the ink and paper gloss. The enclosed booklet contains a text which we won’t know whether it is the original one or not.
Le puzzle (vanité)
16 digital prints
24 x 24 cm each
1998
The 16 pieces of a wooden jigsaw have been photographed against a red velvet background, framed, and arranged one after the other one according to their original place. If we pieced together the photograph whose each piece shows a fragment, we would get the picture of what we have before our eyes : an installation of 16 frames on a wall, containing the 16 pieces of a jigsaw photographed against a red velvet background, etc… In any case, the effort to reconstruct the jigsaw is vain since, as it is thwarted by the mise en abyme, it can’t form the picture previous to its “tearing to a piece”. Each photograph bearing its own presentation only shuts on itself in its casket-like frame.
Les images en moins
CD-ROM , 10 copies produced
1998
This CD-ROM gathers all the photos that have been shot but not chosen. Never shown, they make up the negative of the photographic work, its spectre. The projection of each plate picture by picture follows the photographs filed by negative plates. The missing pictures are mentioned at the bottom of each plate by their negative number. The CD-ROM contains about 1500 pictures.
Failure delivery (1)
Black and white photograph, negative film, projection equipment, dark room
1998
In a dark room, a 24 x 36 negative is projected onto its own print. Both negative and positive are perfectly superimposed – size, contrast, angle of projection – so that, in the dark, their superimposition annihilates the visibility of the picture, only offering the viewer a luminous grey screen. The invisible picture of the photograph shows a detail from a computer screen in a close-up shot: an e-mail page displays a failure message when sending a mail: delivery error.
Failure delivery (2)
Black and white photograph on glossy plastic paper
180 x 120 cm
1998
Autres
Unclassifiable, these photographs are not part of any series. They bring together images of commissioned solitary photographs.
