Father’s Memories

This project concerns the photographs of my dad. It wonders about the absence and the memory. My dad is died when I was a child, so I don’t know his history, his memories and his life. I used the old photos of my family, specially of my dad or the photos taken from my dad. I assembled them and I created the new pictures. There are differents levels of absence: that of my father’s figure; the memory; that of the past life which gets lost and gets confused; the imaginary and imagined memories; the life that passes and disappears and that of reconstruction something that never existed. The result is old pictures (80s) which are absurdes for the composition.

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In the project,  it’s very important the matter, it was interesting for me to work with a look that does not belong to me. To play with overlays, to create a absurde and false reality is also a way to question in general the memory concept and the connection with a memory. A memory that defines and determines us. In this case, it’s me who define and determine a past that is not mine either.