Far removed from touristic or folklore-laden images, my project explores the tensions between cultural heritage, individual identity, and social vulnerabilities. The photographs reveal presences rather than situations. Some images indirectly address sensitive issues such as isolation, disorientation, and addiction, not as narrative subjects, but as diffuse states inscribed in bodies, gestures, and gazes.
My approach prioritizes duration and proximity. The editing I have chosen introduces a visible texture that creates a distance from the immediacy of reality. Moreover, this treatment invites a slower reading of the image and situates the work within an extended temporality, akin to that of memory.
This project does not claim to depict Polynesia as a whole. It offers a series of visual fragments, rooted in lived experience, that question the mechanisms of representation and the role of the gaze in the construction of contemporary narratives about overseas territories.
