CHAPTER 4 : HABITER PLEINEMENT SON CORPS
Devenir Chair (Becoming Flesh) is a multimedia installation project using my body as both subject and material. The project begins with a question: can photography transform the way we inhabit our own bodies? It explores how cultural norms inscribe themselves into our bodies and shape our relationship to ourselves. Moving through difficult and joyful territories, it takes as its starting point my own bodily experience. The project unfolds across four chapters.
Habiter pleinement son corps (Fully inhabiting your body) seeks to understand what inhabiting one's body means: can this body become a place where I can simply exist, or must it be a place of resistance? Can it reinvent itself as a space of creation rather than reproduction of norms?
I build a 2D wooden house frame large enough for me to stand in. Photographic fragments become building materials, arranged on the skeletal structure. This body-house becomes an attempt to build toward something I cannot fully grasp.
I film the construction of the body-house and this documentation becomes a metaphor for the ongoing work of reappropriation. The film and a large-format image of the inhabited house form a testimony to this imperfect reconciliation in progress.