Anatomy of absence

« Anatomy of absence is a plastic artwork on memory.

Three years ago, I started to gather images. At that time, I was coming back from a three-month solo trip across the United States. I paced up and down the roads from New York to California with the idea of losing myself. Fifteen days before the end of my trip, all my images disappeared.

Each time I convoked these memories and facing the absence of images, these memories sought a material consistency. Thanks to photographic and plastic techniques, I wanted to manage to decompose the mental transformation of a memory by carrying out a process on the physical image. Pared-down, damaged, essence-based, the image turns into something else. The images were captured using traditional methods, then reprinted, rephotographed, then developed again up to the point of becoming a nearly immaterial object, far from the initial object.

The polyptych crossed by the light creates a visual echo that spreads into fragments that move in space.

In this work of reproduction, my idea was to insert a controlled error, a defect, a crack. By sequencing a single image on a glass plate using various corrosives that physically degrade the photographic object, I was able to make another image appear, sometimes simplified, sometimes more complex.

I designed Anatomy of absence to propose a poetic collection of images that recounts the itinerancy of a trip and a practice. »