“Chamboulement”
In 2009, my family home in Jura, France, burned down. Over thirty years of my parents' life and twenty-one of my own went up in smoke. Soon after the event, I arrived at the house in the early morning to salvage what I could. I saved the family photos and documented the aftermath of the fire. The fire brought many unresolved matters to light, though at the same time, so much was thrust into darkness. Those saved photographs and the subsequent ones i made, succeed in bringing two distinct timelines together.
The piece of work is a collection of documentary photographs and family photographs. The documentary photographs are the result of weeks spent with my family in the aftermath of the fire: the recollection of those events that so deeply affected the entire family. Juxtaposing the family photographs and slides salvaged from the ruins gives one an opportunity to look at the past and the present moments, as they look toward each other. The happy house that was, is looking at what it has become; as are the residents and associates of that dwelling.