Dans ma maison
qui n’est pas ma maison
tu viendras
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IN COLLABORATION WITH CAMILLE-AMANDINE MARINO
“Dans ma maison qui n’est pas ma maison tu viendras” which can be translated as “In my house that is not my house you will come” is a photographic series created collaboratively by Camille-Amandine and Basile in a family house in Brittany. For Camille-Amandine, it is an intimate place filled with layered memories; for Basile, the neighbour, who does not belong to this history, the house is initially a foreign space, one of observation. Developed over six years, the project explores how photography can accompany the gradual disappearance of a place.
Built in the 1970s, the house carries a family memory marked by silences and tensions. After the grandmother’s death, the two artists began working there regularly, mostly at night.
The project is based on a constant exchange of roles between photographer and model. Each can observe, direct the image, appear or disappear. The photographs are made in low light, often using flash. Rather than documenting the house, the work seeks to extend a way of inhabiting it.
Knowing that the house would eventually be sold, they gradually developed rituals of farewell through photography. Over time, the house changed and deteriorated, shaped by neglect and the passing of time. The images follow this transformation, as well as the evolving relationships between those who inhabit the space.
After the sale, they returned one last time by breaking into the house. For five nights, projections of images made throughout the years were cast onto the walls. Confronted with the place where they had first been created, the photographs appeared one final time inside a house that had already been lost.
This series accompanies the disappearance of a family home and the attempt to preserve a presence within it through photography, until its final abandonment.