As a dialogue between a body and a landscape, ‘Shimmering wanders’ (“Corps en fuite”) explores the body’s intrusion into its environment. Built around the presence of a mirror, the series invites the subject to collide with the organic world. The mirror becomes the bridge between the human being and his or her relationship with the sensory world. Orchestrated by the photographic medium, each visual composition draws as much on the performance of the self-portrait as on literary and pictorial images. Created from landscapes in the South of England, the Camargue and the Côte d’Azur, the photographs sketch out a plural geography: a symbiosis of an aquatic, rural and arid world. A source of vertigo, the cracking of the mirror reveals a threshold between fiction and realism. The mirror takes our gaze to another window. It projects the intensity of reality – its materiality, its plasticity, but above all its impermanence. More than a room of one’s own, the mirror invites itself here like an inner room opening onto the infinite outside. As a genuine conversation between the human and the earth, between the particular and the universal, the photographs conjure up the mystery of evanescent figuration. The self-portrait becomes pure impossibility. Each image floats in a disturbing in-between: between appearance and disappearance. The blur is intended as an expression of ambiguity: of a back-and-forth between ecological imperative and enjoyment of life.
