Invited by the Centre des monuments nationaux for a photographic commission at Montmajour Abbey in 2023, I created a series of photographs in the heart of the abbey church, the cloister and the rock cemetery.
I was delighted to revisit these places that left a strong impression on me throughout my youth.

To express as closely as possible the intensity of the abbey’s beauty and the energy it exudes, I wanted to add a layer of materiality to my photographs.
The use of inks with special characteristics within silkscreen printing enabled me to enrich my images with treatments that are dear to me. Making use of phosphorescence, shimmering, alternating mattity and brilliance, and a slight gravelly relief, the photographs appear different and constantly renewed, depending on the time of day, the position of the viewer and the light source they receive.

The permanent impermanence built into the very nature of the works echoes the invisible energies I project into them.
Refuges, Elixir, le Vide et le Plein, Matin d’hiver, Les Sentinelles… are thus for me connected to an existential and in-temporal experience of Montmajour Abbey.