DESCRIPTION
This photographic series is part of IMAGO, a performative ritual blending dance, spoken word, and visual installation. It explores how women reclaim their bodies and identities beyond imposed narratives. The title IMAGO refers to the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious image we carry of ourselves or others — often shaped by societal norms, family, and media.
Set in nature, the ritual unfolds as a collective act of release. Each participant steps into the circle, speaks aloud an injunction she wants to reject (e.g., "Be quiet," "Be thin," "Be nice"), and removes an item of clothing. This continues, one after another, until each woman stands nude — not exposed, but freed. The process becomes both intimate and political.
Photographed in black and white, the images are timeless, focusing on the raw presence of the body and its dialogue with natural landscapes. The work invites a shift in perspective: from objectification to presence, from shame to power, from isolation to sorority.
IMAGO offers an alternative image of the feminine: rooted, embodied, connected — a space where the gaze softens and the body becomes a site of truth, resistance, and reconnection.
AUTHOR
I am a visual artist and performer whose work explores the deep connections between the body, nature, and collective memory. Through photography, performance, and installation, I question social representations of the female body and create rituals of liberation and reclamation.
I trained in analog and digital photography at Lycée Brassaï in Paris, then expanded my practice through a transdisciplinary education in Art of Movement in Marseille, combining dance, voice, improvisation, and visual art. My approach merges a minimalist, often black-and-white aesthetic with a sensitive exploration of sorority, the living world, and symbolic gesture. I work primarily in natural environments, which I see as spaces of transformation and reconnection.
My project IMAGO brings these themes together in a collective ritual: women undress one garment at a time, naming aloud what they are letting go of—social norms, shame, fear—until they arrive at a state of embodied freedom. I also take part in the ritual, photographing while being naked myself, to dissolve any power dynamic and to create an image that is both shared and vulnerable.
Through my work, I aim to create spaces of gentle resistance, where bodies reclaim their presence, power, and poetic truth.
