2007 – Narcisse

Wrapping a body in its entirety has a completely different significance to wrapping objects. The folds, gestures and tensions, beyond their aesthetic role, transform the human being into an object, an immobile sculpture, far removed from any individuality or free will. As well as exploring form, photography helps us to distance ourselves from the violence of the total enclosure of a living being. Through advertising and social prescriptions, we are subjected to the double injunction of being ourselves while conforming to the physical canons in force.
In Appearances, real bodies become smooth and ageless, without nationality or skin colour, thanks to a sheath of white plasticised fabric.

Narciso, in 2014, marks the continuation of this research into the notion of identity and its dilution by conformity to the changing criteria of seduction. Today, Narcissus no longer loses himself in his own reflection, but in the lure he imagines to be the most appealing.