With all my heart, I kiss you (2012-2015)
Verdun is a battle.
Verdun is a city of twenty thousand inhabitants in northeastern France.
Verdun is a battlefield where seven hundred thousand soldiers died.
The battle becomes a case of study in the form of an installation where different geographical and historical points are connected.
This work aims to explore the representation of conflicts and wars. It questions the ability of photographic medium to represent tragic events. This installation comprises various pieces and materials: still images I made, objects and archive materials collected, such as aerial reconnaissance tactical images taken between 1915 and 1917, interior views, or found postcards.
Furthermore, the triviality is persistent in all the works. There is nothing to see, but everything could be thought. It’s less about the experience of war than about ways of looking.
Then, an image - by being reused and reinterpreted in interaction with the other pieces - creates meaning for other possibilities for war representation.
Graben #1
C-Print mounted on aluminium, 40x50 cm, 2012
Graben #2, Graben #3
C-Print mounted on aluminium, 40x50 cm, 2012
Graben #5, C-Print mounted on aluminium, 80x105 cm, 2012
Graben #4, C-Print mounted on aluminium, 80x105 cm, 2012
With all my heart I will kiss you
installation views: various materials and documents, wood shelf and table, various sizes, 2012, 2015
Re-connaissance (1914-1918)
16 reproduced archival photographs mounted on a MDF table, 50x300 cm, 2013
Sky
Found photograph reprinted on mat paper, various sizes, 2013