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I was sitting in the grass when I was using a camera for the first time. it was a toy made of plastic whose joyful colors matched with my coat, charged with a 35mm roll of film. One needed to operate a series of actions on the device (buttons, scrollers) before a flash could trigger from inside the box.
Later I had a similarly remarkable experience holding in my hands a mobile phone and using its tiny built-in ‘camera’. This day I spent framing and capturing through the screen, all around the great chestnut tree, running behind the dogs. Then I wanted to frame and capture through cameras each and every new discoveries, relationships and injuries of my teenage years. At this point I couldn’t understand yet that I was simply trying to formulate an answer to images I used to see everywhere else without asking for it.
I exercise in relation with image-making devices, seeking to give form to those relations, and the resulting images are attempted translations of the feelings embedded through my lens. I hold in my hands the small black box, shaking it in all directions as if I wanted to make it burst, observing it as close as possible. I’d like to fill it with anything it’s not supposed to see, to witness cracks revealing on the sleek framed surfaces of the photographs. That way, I tend to explore extended visual universes, as for example the wind and rain and their behaviors, or faces which mean a lot with no use of expression, local facts and customs as it reaches my senses, the bright revealing of signs usually considered as waste or shapeless.
born in Amiens (FR) in 1995, living and working in Brussels (BE)
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