Les Moguichets
« La chambre meurt miel et tilleul
Où les tiroirs s'ouvrent en deuil
La maison se mêle à la mort
Dans un miroir qui se ternit. »
Jean Bourdeillette, Les Etoiles dans la Main
Les Moguichets is a personal representation of a decaying family house. It had already been unoccupied for six years when I started photographing it. Poorly built, the house had been collapsing since its last occupant had had to move out, whilst nature, taking claim, slowly started creeping in, overgrowing the deceased home.
Les Moguichets deals with remembrance and the relationship we have with our past, with eras of our lives we can only remember in fragments. As Proust wrote, "les images choisies par le souvenir sont aussi arbitraires, aussi étroites, aussi insaisissables que celles que l'imagination avaient formées et la réalité détruites". While these times belong to us, they yet continuously seep through our fingers, and echoing the fragility of life, slowly flee our memories, ultimately vanishing.