I undertook the Empty home research with the idea of the disappearance of ruins in the contemporary world.
The memory, the imprints, once held by places are now replaced by prefabricated objects destined to disappear.
I saw in the photography of places that were empty for reasons ranging from the termination of a lease to death the opportunity to create ruins and thus make an archaeology of them.
I started with places that were dear to me in this first series.
These visits by strangers to the house, passing through it and inhabiting it, give me the opportunity to make the familiar meet the strangeness, giving rise to a new inner landscape.
we think we are fighting against current disasters but I am convinced that we are fighting against oblivion
what drives people to destroy themselves and the world is caused by the loss of our ruins
we feel crumbled, dusty, in danger
everything is good to leave a trace, an image to avoid collapsing
my rebellion consists in making places communicate with people in a series that is close to my heart
the flat, the house, the studio, it is the intimate
when it is emptied, a trace of people remains on the walls or in the rooms, traces of absence
it is by encountering the unknown and the absence that I resist fear
for me a modern rebel is a person who seizes his fears and twists them to bring out a collective juice at the origin of the concerns.
