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The Collectors - 2015-2016

 

 

View of the video installation, Chez Hermine , September 2016, Château de Sacy.

7p monitor, 16:9, headphones.

What is harvested? And what is preserved? What is important?

What inhabits our daily lives? And what embodies us?

This is what this series of photographic portraits and videos attempts to answer, which focuses on the banal life of a few individuals, all very different, but each having the particularity of having a collection of objects of their own at home. Cabinets of curiosities whose value and authenticity are based solely on the intimate projection of their owner. Thus each object holds a story, a fragment of the individual's life, of which each will freely judge the importance or obsolescence...

The anecdote is often considered a sub-genre of the narrative, yet it sometimes holds keys that open the doors of collective memory.

I go to people's homes who open their doors to me, and I photograph the objects and images they have in their homes. Then, I come back with the photographs and ask them to comment on each photograph taken in their homes.

Excerpts from the videos below:

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