A series of 21 videostills, 27.7×37 cm

Secret Rituals I and II, 100×140 cm, C-Print on Aluminium

Wouldn’t it be nice is a video film of 14′ showing the social and personal relationships between the members of a same family.
A whole family gathers together for a dinner.
The film is based on the tension between the artificiality, the vacuity in the group relations and the spontaneous and exaggerated intimacy of the characters when they get isolated in the different rooms of the house. It focuses on the women characters, who are playing very obsessive rituals. Those rituals help them to relate with their surrounding. In that way, they can replay and reinvent the relationships between them, even if it becomes a kind of hallucination.

Silent Protections is an installation derived from the film Wouldn’t it be nice. It presents two videos, projected side by side on the same wall. This work shows three characters: two women (the mothers) and a young girl (the daughter), isolated in several tiny parts of a house (the bedrooms and the bathroom). The three characters are playing very intimate games together or alone.
I was very interested to create a tension, an intimacy between two people, that no one can really named. A relationship beyond cliché (it is not really friendship, love, pain, incest, but more personal than that). A relationship which can be very simple, pure and direct. It is also beautiful and strange to see those two women of 50 years old, playing like two little girls.
The double projection includes the viewer in a playful and cinematographic relationship. The viewer can feel totally part of the intimacy of the scenes, because of the rhythm and specific points of view of the display.