This photograph revisits the depiction of women in the bath as objects of desire – a creation of the Hollywood golden age – but positions a man in their place. Beauty standards change from one generation to another. Just as the aspects associated with the masculine and feminine universes also evolve. Mirrors and reflective surfaces are recurrent in the « Self-Reflections » series. They are symbolically connected to death as they force us to face the constant passage of time.

SELF-REFLECTIONS is a series of satirical and surreal self-portraits, presenting a repertoire of four personalities that live inside the same person. Photographed as archetypes and fairy tale characters, they are named: The Villain, The Joker, The Prince and The Boy.

The images, meticulously constructed like paintings with in-depth work on their characterisation, colour and style, form allegorical tableaux whose narratives intertwine artistic, cinematic and philosophical references. They evoke the construction of identity, childhood, death, freedom, madness… sometimes to comedic effect.

Irony and subversion invite the viewer to a striking world filled with a strange chromatic unreality, a theatre of the absurd where a single actor plays all the roles.

— Présences Photographie, Montélimar (France), 2022.