Autoportrait

Autoportrait is a series made up of 35 photographs of used handkerchiefs. I made them at the end of 2020, just before my 36th birthday. The handkerchiefs have not been folded up after use. They were placed as they are in a photo studio with a black background. It's a faceless self-portrait, at least without my facial features. There is some material that belongs to me, but for the most part it is lodged inside the handkerchief. This series asks the question of self-perception, that of the creator of the image and that of the viewer. It is both vanities and pareidolics. Thus, everyone is sent back to the uncertainty and the haphazard folds of the handkerchief. By photographing used handkerchiefs such as statuettes or ancient objects, I change the perception that one may have of them, giving them the status of archaeological object rather than waste. Their form being what remains of an intimate and harmless gesture.