Because I have not been able to address women’s issues within my project « Impact, in Search of (R)evolution » yet because of the complexity of its political aspect and the time it covers, but because it is essential, I would like to introduce my work in progress « Unknown Names »

— Is female emancipation still deadly in 2018?

Behind a statistic (a woman dies every three days under the blows of her partner) which repeats itself every year, there are lives, first names, collateral victims. The extraction of these stories from various facts, coupled with their convergence, viscerally highlights the recurrence and the violence of a social fact, we are particularly involved in the questioning of its media coverage. To restore to these victims even an identity, some lines of existence, a situation, a history (although often lacunary), undoubtedly reveals that these dramas hurt any social class, any age ; and essentially pushes us to discern the extraordinary violence falling in the very heart of conjugal intimacy.

This funeral litany makes us aware of the magnitude of the phenomenon and its stakes. The eponymous book retraces all the feminicides that took place for the time being between January 1st and April 30th, 2018, on the French territory, mapped on the cover.

Strangulation. Throttling. Punch. Drowning. Fire Rifle Balls. Ceramic knife stab. Dagger.

Suffering from atrocities similar to those caused to Sylvie, Catherine, Estelle, Aline and her twins, as well as two women with unknown names, these photographs result from a process of deterioration in abyme that is getting impair.

Tridimensionally remodulated, the representations of space reinvents themselves. Conscious of itself, the projective plane is then extracted from its two-dimensional characteristic. The image comes out of the frame, from the plane of representation instilling a whole that takes place outside the image; by its movement towards the spectator, it beckons to us and addresses our situation, demanding a responsibility from ourselves.

— This project will be exhibited at the MBAL — Locle Museum of Fine Arts, Switzerland from November 2019 — January 2020