BACK

To show oneself from behind is to partially disappear. It is to renounce the direct gaze, to escape one's own control. In my work, I have always used the mirror to see myself, to frame my image, to fully exist within the space of the photograph. But the back escapes this control. It eludes view. It is an unknown territory, a blind spot.

This work was born from a remark that struck me: the absence of my back in my images. Like a refusal, or an impossibility. Here, I chose to reverse this relationship, to capture the other from behind, my closest friend, to better question what eluded me. But I didn't stop there: I wanted to go further, exploring the reverse side of the photograph itself.

The device plays on a series of reversals. The model's back is seen, but her reflection shows her again, a fragile echo of her presence. The printed image, on the other hand, faces us from its back, obscuring what we normally expect to see. This back-and-forth between the visible and the invisible, the front and back, questions our relationship to the image and to memory. What we believe we capture, to possess, always partly eludes us.

Through this staging, I question my own relationship to the body in the image, what I choose to reveal and what remains opaque to me. Can we truly grasp ourselves entirely in a photograph? Can we exist both in the image and in its reverse side?

This work is an attempt at exploration, a gentle confrontation with the unknown within, a passage between what is revealed and what remains hidden.