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IF I COULD MAKE THE WORLD AS PURE AND STRANGE AS WHAT I SEE

EXHIBITION AT THE VILLA NOAILLES, 2024 /CENT-QUATRE PARIS 2021



The title is borrowed from Lou Reed's Pale Blue Eyes, a line that resonates because of what it says about the act of making. Photography here is not documentation but world-building: an attempt to construct, through framing and light and chance, something that holds both strangeness and a kind of purity at once.

This series invites viewers to slow down, to look closely, step back, notice what first escaped them, and question what they see. Shot over several years, the images trace a path through a deliberate strangeness shaped by composition, light, the play of day and night, framing, and depth of field. Some photographs are carefully staged; others let the film capture the moment with more room for chance.

Strangeness is not the end point, it is where things get interesting, where meaning loosens and something else becomes possible. And purity lives inside that strangeness too. There is something pure in the accident, in the image that wasn't entirely planned. Shooting underwater at night, the flash hits what the eye couldn't see and pulls it out of the dark. The photograph captures what was never meant to be visible. That involuntary reveal has its own kind of beauty, something closer to discovery than intention.

Water, present throughout, becomes a symbol of this ambiguity, a space of blurred edges, somewhere between air and water, inside and outside, human and animal. The familiar is quietly displaced: laundry hangs on a line, underwater. The domestic gesture holds, but the world around it has shifted, and something in that gap, between the ordinary and the impossible, opens onto a wider unease, a world where boundaries no longer stay where we left them.

My friends become recurring characters, turning the images into small narratives. Rather than delivering answers, the series encourages projection and imagination, what happened before, and what might happen after?