My parents, or queer innocence

2025–2026 - Photographic series 

My parents, aged 88 and 94, celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. As they have always done, they mark the occasion with a costume party. I photograph the preparations, in the intimacy of the bedroom, living room and bathroom. This day opens the series, which then extends well beyond the event itself.

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Gestures, bodies and expressions emerge through this particular closeness. A fleeting melancholy crosses my father's face and recedes; elsewhere, joy, abandon or complicity take their place. Rather than documenting a reality, I shape a narrative informed by our bond and by what these familiar faces stir and shift within me.

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At an age when bodies so often disappear from view, my parents continue to dress up, transform themselves and occupy the frame. This is where the word queer returned to me, in its older sense, before it named an identity: odd, off-kilter, bent out of the ordinary. Not a claim, but a way of being : shifting conventions, remaining multiple.

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2026 - Photographic film - 4 min 30 sec

The editing brings the two timeframes of the series into dialogue. Driven by the music, the film heightens its narrative and celebratory dimension, building towards the party.

To watch the film, please click here.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

> Les Magasins généraux, Aire de famille, Paris, 2021

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SCREENINGS

> Nuit de l'image, Clermont-Ferrand, 2026

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