My series of photographs are like a reservoir of images, which become texts, scripts, films, in situ works or performances.
An initial series of photographs taken in May 2026 forms the starting point for this project centred on William Morris, co-founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, designer, painter, poet, writer and politician of Victorian England.
The aim of this project – which is just beginning and will take various shapes – is to examine the Arts and Crafts movement in today’s world. Beauty – whether found in nature, objects, homes or landscapes – forms part of the humanist ideal he proposes, drawing inspiration from the medieval guilds and rejecting megacities and the ersatz objects produced by industrial manufacturing. His speculative fiction book, »News from Nowhere », is a source of inspiration for imagining a humanity at peace with nature and in its economic and social organisation. Today, faced with the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the extreme financialisation of the world-phenomena just as disruptive as the Industrial Revolution in his time - I feel the need to draw on his legacy to explore, alongside him and his loved ones, the new realities and possibilities that lie before us.
A film created with AI and based on these photographs is currently in production.
A VISIT (May 2026)
Inkjet prints on satin-finish photographic paper. Various sizes.
In this first series, ‘A Visit’, William Morris and his wife, Jane – much like the main character in « News from Nowhere » – inadvertently travel through time and find themselves in our present.
In these photographs, we can see their surprise and unease at a world they do not recognise, but also, and above all, the evocation of their sentimental relationship. They are, in fact, an unhappy couple, with unrequited feelings. William, that radiant creative spirit, would bear the painful mark of this throughout his life, afflicted by moments of melancholy despite the frenzy of his artistic and political commitments.
"Stain's Stories" and "Intimate Climes"
A period in which Christine’s character develops and in which the motif of the patch of light reappears.
Christine is an ethereal, enigmatic, fickle woman character, both physically and mentally.
She sometimes changes colour or density, taking on the appearance of a luminous spot or a ghostly being.
The spot of light is a protagonist on its own in the stories, a force that is difficult to define and which adds a fantastical dimension. Sometimes floating and uncertain, threatening or manipulative, it occasionally merges with Christine's body, like an uncontrollable impulse. It is also a reference to silver halide technology, the spot of light that impresses the silver salts, and which is carried over into the digital age, like a trace of the past.
‘Using the office as a stage, I imagined the people who work and circulate there, seeking not to document the visible, but to explore a fantasised dimension, psychological states or daydreams. Around Christine and a few men, a story begins to take shape, with tensions, power struggles, desires and imprisonments.’
> See In Situ project "Intimate Climes"
Silver prints from colour negatives, 120 x 85 cm, 2002.
> See In Situ project
Series "Christine's Story",
Silver prints from colour negatives, various sizes, 1998.