Behind the Picture
15x15 cm, Paris, June 2025
Representation, optical process, reflection, projection, mental image…
Image, magic, mirage…
What is an “image”?
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When the Sun Meets the MoonSolar eclipse, Trocadéro, Paris, 12 August 2026 -
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Subdue the Earth!Paris, August 2026: a road roller bearing the colours of the first edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring from 1962 -
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, 1962 -
To Albert Schweitzer who said “Man hast lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
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The EndParis, May 2026 -
In The Shade of the TreeGreek shadow theatre set design by Maria Kakoni, Athens, April 2026 -
The World of YesterdayTautological ready-made, Paris, March 2026
A copy of Stefan Zweig’s memoirs, published in French by Albin Michel in 1948, worn by the passage of time. -
Epigraph
Let’s meet the time as it seeks us.
Shakespeare: Cymbeline. -
We’ll Find a Place.Torn poster, suburb, Paris, March 2026 -
The DancerAdvertising column, Karlsruhe, January 2026 -
EntranceInscription on a family vault, West Norwood Cemetery, London, December 2025 -
Order and DisorderVersailles Gardens, December 2025 -
PalimpsestNotice board, Sorbonne, Paris, October 2025 -
Walking ManAssemblage, freely inspired by Giacometti, Ivry, September 2025 -
Visit to Donald Trump’s ResidenceParis, August 2025, starring Jacinthe -
Shadow TheatreA little girl captivated by Orfeas Kallintzis’ Karaghiosis show in a village in the Peleponnese, Greece, August 2025. -
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LightningThe blackboard in the former village school, Greece, August 2025 -
MedusaAthens, August 2025. The terrifying Gorgon, Μέδουσα. She has snakes for hair, and whoever meets her gaze turns to stone. -
Outside InMaison de Victor Hugo, Paris, July 2025 -
The Sleep of ImagesWolfgang Tillmans at the BPI, centre Pompidou, end of the day, June 23, 2025 -
Theatre of WarManeuver, Venice, November 2024 -
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The First Cup of Coffee on a TerraceWall calendar sheet, April 1943, found in the family archives. In the midst of war, the image and its caption suggest normal life. As if everything were fine. -
There They Go PluckedParis, rue de Turbigo, October 2024 -
OmphalosThe Navel of the World and its umbilical cords, Greece, August 2024 -
Facing the ScreenTribute to Georges de La Tour, with Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Athens, August 2024 -
The Olympic Cauldron-Hot Air BalloonTuileries Garden, Paris, August 2024. Magic! And perfectly instagrammable. The event in the age of its instant distribution. -
SelfieThe impossibility of looking oneself into the face, Paris, Juli 2024 -
SilencedBroken Voice
Monique Morelli sings Aragon, 1961, vintage vinyl record broken during transport, Paris, February 2024 -
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LOVEParis, September 2023 -
Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man.As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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The Horsemen of the ApocalypseKarlsruhe, March 2023, with the invaluable help of Chiemerie Ogenyi-Benjamin and Jörg Reimann -
The Clothed Maja and the Naked MajaAfter Goya, La Maja vestida e la Maja desnuda
Soap, Paris, February 2023 -
The Dream of ConstantineAfter Piero della Francesca
Paris, September 2021 -
The Unknown MasterpieceAfter Balzac
Advertising column, Karlsruhe, January 2020 -
Self Portrait Waiting for the Suburban Train RERParis, during the strike of January 2020 -
Platon’s CaveParis, July 2019 -
Capturing HumboldtSelfie in the reflecting part of a daguerreotype, the portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Hermann Biow, 1847, in the exhibition Licht und Leinwand, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 -
Devastating ThoughtSelf portrait in a broken mirror, ancient thermal bath, Loutra, Nisyros, Greece, August 2017
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“Mise en abyme”, reflection in the bathroom, 2008
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A selection of these photos is published in the portfolio Analogies in Spring 2025 in #2 of the Alarm Club’s transdisciplinary magazine sta., launched by Nicolas Michelin and Emmanuel Saulnier, layout by Chedly Atallah.
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