Insects and arachnids have, since ancient times, been the focus of stories and mythologies of various cultures. They appeared as symbols of human qualities or as a presage of impending trouble or death.

Both a self-portrait and a still life, this photograph recalls the classic fairytale imagery of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ unaware of the dangers that lie in wait. The use of taxidermy is recurrent throughout the series.

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.

— Prix Voltaire de la Photographie, Château de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire (France), 2021.
— Présences Photographie, Montélimar (France), 2022.
— Prix Voltaire de la Photographie, Château de Bussy-Rabutin, Bussy-le-Grand (France), 2022.