Mémoire

Memories, between deconstruction & construction
How can we build a memory when it has been denied, crushed, or told by others?

In this series, I examine the making of Guadeloupean memory through a series of portraits. By blending intimate framings with wider shots, these photographs trace networks – a rhizomic memory, made of tensions, ruptures and resurgences. Excerpts from slavery archives, reproductions of old engravings, partial texts and repurposed books haunt these images, like traces of the past that we must deconstruct in order to better construct ourselves.

This body of images makes a clear statement: our memory will not be given to us. It must be constructed, reinvented, affirmed. And this construction, however difficult it may be, is an act of strength. An act of life.

This ensemble is an invitation to question narratives, to think of memory as a living process – it is a set of threads stretched or to be stretched between past, present and future.