This satirical scene, reminiscent of Norman Rockwell’s comic Christmas paintings, presents The Boy spanked by an unsympathetic Santa Claus, who looks straight out of a Christmas horror movie. The title evokes the frequent embellishment of one’s childhood souvenirs, in sharp contrast to the reality depicted in the image.

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.