For many years, I have been questioning identity and desire on the basis of a plan transposed from the psychoanalytical framework. Men and women come over and undress themselves within a given space to leave a bodily mark, associate gestures and glances to run the risk to bare the mark of desire in front of the camera ('desire': what moves us and makes us alive). The specific moment, the identical place and the natural light make up the conditions of a space within which their presence reveals itself, recorded on films as signifiers and recognised signals.
The young (FTM) man subject this photographic project is about is called Kler. His discreet and poetic universe was revealed to me in 2019 through the photographs he published on Instagram and I gradually became a witness of his transition. The meetings and photo sessions took place at relatively distant intervals, which were yet connected by means of a consistent dialogue. Taken from the male wardrobe, clothes and objects make up a first privileged means to appropriate his gender, whilst the incorporation process occurs through injections and other male signifiers become flesh.
This proposal is not presenting this work in a chronological manner but rather as a confrontation of various attendance states throughout gestures or stances.