Inhabiting the Edges

SHORT PAPER. My doctoral project in art-creation-research, which began in October 2021, is entitled "Imaginal photography: for an aesthetic of symbiosis." In my practice as a photographic artist, making symbiotic relationships, unexpected alliances, allows me to provoke a "suspension of evidence" which, through the intermediary of the image, invites the viewer to share the experience of a different look. From this point on, the very nature of perception is to admit ambiguity. The interdependencies in ecosystems, the principle of hybridization between different species are themes addressed by the team of the laboratory of plant symbioses of the French National Museum of Natural History of Paris with which I collaborate. In my research, I'm specifically interested in the symbioses present in the orchid with the biologists Florent Martos and Eve Hellequin. Transcending the notion of organism allows us to reconcile human beings with their natural dimension of interdependence and interaction. The researchers in this laboratory are the extractors and curators of natural plant resources, with which they shape new worlds such as the Grande Serre: a space in which I would like to exhibit works in 2023-2024. These hybrid spaces, co-dependent with humans, seem to me to be fertile places to dialogue with.