AM I A HOLOGRAM?

Photographic light installation and sound, 13 min 16 s.

This project is part of an ongoing approach to address certain taboo subjects in our society. Altered states of consciousness, and out-of-body experiences in particular, are often stigmatized and interpreted as forms of psychiatric disorder by medical and scientific institutions. Yet, according to Swiss neurologist and neuroscientist Olaf Blanke, one in ten people report having had such an experience, and it's not uncommon for it to recur several times in a lifetime.

During an astral projection, a person may have the impression of leaving their physical body and traveling to other dimensions or intangible places. Individuals reporting such experiences describe a profound sense of interconnection with natural worlds, non-material realities or deceased beings.

Is it possible to have an experience in which our own body seems to be located in an irrational space-time?

On a formal level, I elaborate imaginary worlds in a transparent tank, where I superimpose photographies of deceased beings and plants in water. Through a play of reflections between the glass surfaces, the water and the light, holograms of the deceased appear, and this is what is photographed. The images are made entirely on camera, in order to fully recreate the immaterial aspect of the realms of the invisible. Through this process, I seek to convey in an intuitive and poetic way my own sensations of the more subtle planes of reality.

The ambient matter caresses my skin like morning mist.

Textures, sounds

silences, vibrate simultaneously.

Evanescent beings appear on my path.

As I move between these worlds, orifices filled with diamonds of light open up to me.

I harbor these precious moments

each experience like a jewel to be buried

in a continuum of consciousness.