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OPEN CALL
01 – 30, MAY 2026

Camille Brasselet

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

France

La dilution du souvenir

Identity and our relationship to the world is built around the notion of memory. It takes multiple faces; wanderer of time, it immerses us in a space other than the one in which we are. There is a derealization of the place and a negation of time.

Its representation spaces have a multiple character, with a blurred and undulating border. A double representation is then formed, suggesting an out-of-scope, a mystery that becomes the flesh of the imagination. Like a half-open door leading to “another”, it is a fragment of time that becomes the expression of a whole always in retreat.

Time and space together form a wave, in which memories gradually dissolve, give way for the echo of an absence. These characters roam the places of remembrance, like a picture of the strangeness in everyday life, where everything we knew suddenly seems so foreign to us. These fragmented, unindividualized bodies are part of sanitized scenery. They also become characters, referent of the image. It is through them that we can claim to affirm photographic subjectivity. The photographed body then becomes a photographic body, devoid of any identity of its own. Characters of a living picture, still life. A real contradiction is created, an in-between. The body is so present that it ends up avoiding its environment. It’s almost too much, there without being there.

The absence is elusive and plunges the character into a hypothesis of life. In remembrance, we contrast what is with what is no longer: past and present, two possible worlds incompatible. However, there is no pre-existence of a world to its representation. So this is an attempt to match the before and after in a single image. It is also an “opening on”, an image that goes beyond the frame. The dummy side, posed, bodies and scenery tend towards an absurdity of the real and in this sense approach photographic pictures.

It is through this image that the past and memories evaporate, like a waltz to farewell. The memory runs away, the faces melt, only his imprint is left behind, fragile and elusive. From the imprint is drawn the form of the memory.

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