Tactile

Inspired by a sensory memory linked to the caresses in my childhood, I develop this work as an investigation into the ways of working in photography the bodily effects linked to touch. A raw material that emerges on the surface (of the body and the image), the skin is the sensitive envelope, responsible for the network of sensations, provoking images and imaginations. When the skin touches itself, when the body seeks self-affection, it presents itself to itself, opens up to it and sculpts it.

Tactile is an experimentation of the body in front of the camera in front of the body, for which it is about experiencing the mysterious relationship that links touch to feeling, and then, to expression. It seemed essential to me to reflect on dance; an art form where the search for sensations constitutes the formation of the gesture and its manifestation. The dancer in the photos is a friend and has followed a list of actions, a sort of score intended to orient him to the intention, rhythm and intensity sought.

Behind the camera, I analyze the dancer's gestures. I try a fusion between the memory of sensations, in bodies (mine and hers), and the gaze of sensations, in the image. The senses dancing. I approach chimeras. Where the body is less matter than perception.