Joël Alain Dervaux Photographies

The Récit corpus spawned from my meeting actor Nathan Tordjman, while working on the Improvisations project -getting undressed and bearing it all-, in which he brought clothes into the scope of our shooting sessions as a transitional object for a specific memory. Nathan has progressively rid himself of this plan by letting real or imaginary characters reappear.
As regulars sessions went by, he was in­vited to relive certain strong experiences from his life, by bringing back sensations and a fleshly posture but, beyond, by allowing for memories or fantasies to reappear in his moves or gazes. A narrative on presence and memory is the result of this.
Initially finalised in my studio –Acte I–, we embarked on a travel back in time by entering new theatres such as the Petit Palais –Acte II–, Hôtel Soltykoff in Paris –Interlude– and the Sillon beach in Saint-Malo –Acte III– which turned into revisited spaces, transcended by the performances.