NORMANDIE
2019 - current (work in progress)It was only later that I gained access to my grandfather’s archives. there I discovered a kind of photographic poetry that was close to my own, both in his relationship with his family and his environment. I selected images from his archives to resonate with my own. In an almost “insolent” way, since I didn’t follow his choices. By establishing this visual dialogue, I’m attempting to reconstruct a new family history, which is obviuosly subjective. Family histories are fluid and fragile , constantly revisited and fantasised over time by the people who inhabit them. They are a constant back abd forth between the intimate and the collective. They are multiple stories in which ambiguity, drama, love and hatred are woven together. Its a worldin which we build ourselves up and where each of us can be at once son, father and husband. Although I don’t feel that I’ve really met my grandfather though these images, my father is everywhere here. I starded this project in 2019, my father died in July 2023.