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I see this withdrawal as a form of resistance. Resistance to the frantic mercantile pace that erodes both our inner silence and our connections to others. Resistance to endless injunctions. To grant oneself paresse is not only to allow oneself not to “perform,” but also to accept drifting, fragility, and even decline.
In my series PARESSE, the photographs, taken between 2008 and 2025, are moments stolen from the world’s noise. They carry both a sense of weightlessness and melancholy — landscapes of my inner self.
This work seeks neither to demonstrate nor to conceptualize, not even to inform. It simply wishes to stir within you an intimate emotion — a delicate yet resonant invitation to return to your deepest rhythm, to dwell in the fullness of your life.
Je vois cette mise en retrait comme une forme de résistance. Résistance au rythme mercantile effréné qui détruit autant notre intériorité que notre rapport aux autres. Résistance aux injonctions de toutes sortes. S'offrir la paresse, c'est non seulement s'autoriser à ne pas « performer », mais aussi accepter de divaguer, d’être fragile, voire de décliner.
Dans ma série PARESSE, les photographies, prises entre 2008 et 2025, sont autant d’instants dérobés au bruit du monde. Elles sont dotées à la fois d'une apesanteur et d'une mélancolie qui sont autant de paysages intérieurs.
Ce travail ne cherche ni à démontrer, ni à conceptualiser, ni même à informer. Il n’ambitionne de provoquer en vous qu’une émotion intime, qu'une subtile mais vibrante invitation à retrouver votre mesure profonde, à habiter vos vies.
chacun sa rêverie immobile, son silence précieux,
chacun son urgence à ne rien faire,
chacun son chemin de salut.
Each their own motionless reverie, their precious silence.
Each their own urgent idleness.
Each their own path to salvation.
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Imprimé à 300 exemplaires, l'ouvrage est actuellement en pré-commande sur le site des Editions du Vagabond.
PARESSE is also a book — a four-handed creation with photographer Patrick Guedj, and a collaboration with perfumer Daphné Bugey, who imagined its fragrance.
Printed in a limited edition of 300 copies, the book is currently available for pre-order on the website of Éditions du Vagabond.
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