Petite Maman, 2025.

Petite Maman begins with photographs of my mother as a little girl, taken by my grandmother in 1949, which I returned to decades later.

I began photographing details that drew me in: a face, a gesture, sometimes only a few millimeters of the original print, enlarging them, repeating them, then enlarging them again. I wanted to get closer to her, as if enlarging the image could somehow reduce the distance between us.

But when you enlarge an image, you lose it. The closer I came, the more the surface began to break apart. Details became more visible while the whole became harder to grasp. And yet, in losing the image, she somehow felt closer.

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Cette installation photographique a été exposée dans le cadre du Festival PhotoSaintGermain du 6 au 30 novembre 2025.