My childhood and adolescence were nourished by painting galleries and museums. Portrait and nude were my preference.
After my studies, I crossed the Sahara and moved to the African bush for 2 years as a teacher then moved to Reunion Island where I began to make photo reports for NGOs.
For a few years now, I have developed personal projects in artistic residency, mainly oriented towards the intimate and the portrait.
My inner universe is imbued with a quest for an "original state" prior to any injury.
The face is very often a revealing which does not deceive of this interior state and this quest specific to each one.
Fascinated by the energy given off by the expression of a face, my work tries to draw closer with portraits to the reading of these inner states, perhaps to find my own way.
Taxidermus
Taxidermus is a series produced with the staff of the St-Denis Natural History Museum (Reunion Island).
I wanted to play with the same characteristic codes of the first photos of the 19th century.
The characters created posed with studied seriousness, in classic postures based on carefully chosen elements: armchair, desk, mirror, easel...
Adventure and travel stories nourished my imagination from childhood and I found behind the scenes of the museum an atmosphere suitable for reviving these stories.
I installed lights to recreate these chiaroscuro from the Flemish school and with the assistance of a team I dressed and styled these characters using authentic period costumes.
I also found period objects in local associations and my hairdressing assistant studied period hairstyles to reproduce them as closely as possible
