My fascination with the passing of time, the ticking of the watch's hands, is strongly linked to the medium of photography as well as of the moving image: to simplify, the first is capable of freezing a specific moment in time, the other of reproducing it over and over again. Fascinated by the two media, I sometimes tried to find a "middle way". Moving from one country to another and then again, I realized how different cultures had an impact on how I perceived time and how I managed it, starting with simple daily chores. Also, growing up in a very small village and then living in very large cities had an impact on how I perceived life moving on.
In New York I started experimenting with double exposure and overlapping negatives on a large format camera, as well as using large format pinhole cameras with (extremely) long exposures, approaches that were more conceptual. More recently, the research on time has focused on family and generations passing by, especially since I moved back to my childhood village and my former grandparents' home, thus confronting my upbringing. My practice has since started being more spontaneous and playful, whether or not the memories are all as playful.
