ATKA, inspired by an Inuit tale, is an intimate exploration of our flaws, our mistakes, our shortcomings, our vulnerability. This work questions our ability to embrace this intrinsic human quality, which we constantly seek to suppress and bury, even though it is a necessary and redeeming evil. Seen in this light, it becomes an anchor from where to rise again.
I began this work at a time where my life was loosing its foundations I had been patiently building all these years. I felt like a tightrope walker, advancing with blind confidence, defying the laws of gravity, always on the verge of falling. On this tenuous link, we must look straight ahead, fix a point on the horizon, and use our arms to help us ; they are thin against headwinds or crosswinds, those we do not see coming.
We must therefore lay ourselves bare in order to draw from within the necessary strength to move forward on an untraveled path. And in this endeavor, photography is my saving grace, a means of exploring, an attempt to understand.
Starting from the body as an anchor point, probing it, examining it, revealing its rough edges, its wounds, the weight of time. Placing objects against a black background, objects that inhabit my studio like so many presences I imagine taking life. Bringing the outside into this closed world, capturing in a tree twisted by the wind its resistance to the improbable. And in this exploration, transforming cracks and wounds into games, embodying myself as a bird struggling to take flight, a legendary Amazon, an imaginary warrior, or a matador, and giving myself the opportunity to rise again.