Fran Lejeune : "Roland Barthes, in La chambre claire, wondered about the link between photography and memory.
He believed that the memory of a loved one was lodged in details that emerged on the surface of our mind like a smile or a scent.
The photograph would then serve as an aide-memoire without containing the memory that overflows and escapes it.
Similarly, in the video entitled Souvenirs:Céline, the portrait of a young woman is deconstructed instead of being reconstituted into a coherent image.
First the teeth – ubiquitous – become animal, then the hat turns into a flower petal.
The memory is nothing more than color and textures in a vertical ballet that sweeps away everything in its path."