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Exhibition from October 16 to November 16, 2019. In the Audacieuse-Galerie, 50 rue Ancienne in Carouge GE.
Interview
Can you tell us more about the photographic work presented?
Here, two different series are presented, the first “No matter” which are staged and the second “Under your skin” which are images made in the world of Drag Queens. Both of these works challenge the idea of gender and present a new perception of the body. These images question the limits defined by society on the identification of a body and its classification. Here, the different images represent multiple bodies, without sexual attribution; they are nobody, and are all at once.
Through this approach, I seek to highlight the carnal details of these bodies that are transforming, and to confront these different individualities forced to cohabit. I then became interested in particular moments or accessories that are directly related to this state of transition and that reveal this change. My interest through photography is to focus on this body that changes and takes on new contours.
The body becomes patterns and colors that are repeated in new compositions. Autonomous, it suggests the search for a marker of femininity or masculinity, although the photographic intention was to give it a certain neutrality. This series aims to desacralize the entity of the feminine and the masculine by taking a new look at this same body that is continuously metamorphosing and splitting. A formal and not an identity-based view, which does not tend towards recognition but towards the experience of a new representation.
The photographed body plays with a balance between the genders as well as between the human and the inhuman. The multiple personalities that are suggested are both frozen by the shot and in perpetual metamorphosis. This shift, this rupture, is the major point of these images.
How did you come to create these photographic series?
The field of gender remains a subject that is often unknown and taboo to most people. The purpose of these images is to be able to open up the debate and give people the chance to discover a different world. I then started by directing to talk about the body and after exploring this path I wanted to immerse myself in one of these universes, to go further. That’s how I decided to go and meet the Drag Queens, I found there an open-mindedness that I had never seen before.
The freedom of the body was exactly what I was looking for. Drag Queens explode all the known limits of the genre, constantly oscillating between several personalities, they offered me another look at the world.
How do you work on your images?
I often need to be immersed in a universe to be able to make images, I like to know my subject inside out before photographing. I then try to oscillate between portraits and details to give as much information as possible. The framing is often tight because I carefully choose what I decide to show to talk about my subject. But the major point of my photographs is color, I always build and think about them starting from this notion, it is central and links all the images together. Of course the light is very important, I wait patiently for it to land on the bodies before triggering.
