In Pause Longue, I explore a unique photographic style based on slowness, blur and intuition.

My approach is based on handheld long exposures: I create images with exposures of 3, 8 or 15 seconds, without a tripod or stabilisation. Initially I used a digital camera, but later I often used a mobile phone. This fragile, almost improvised approach is an act of self-empowerment for me, enabling me to break free from traditional technical constraints and embrace a more sensory, intuitive and embodied approach.

With its aesthetic of blur, Pause Longue navigates the shifts between perception and projection, and between intimate experience and shared cultural codes. It questions how we construct our conceptions of the Other: what do we expect from elsewhere? What do we attribute to it? And what do we betray in believing we represent it? The project exposes and interrogates the latent exoticism present in contemporary artistic vision, whether imagined, critical or asserted.

However, Pause Longue is also a process of reclaiming identity. Each series marks a stage in my personal journey as a woman, as I return to places of rupture — geographic, emotional and creative — to rebuild a sense of unity. The long exposure becomes a ritual of resilience, a way to reassert my presence in a fragmented world where a sense of belonging is always fragile. For me, this process involves both inhabiting and losing myself in the city in order to find myself again.

By immersing myself in these diverse territories, I also consider how cultural narratives are transmitted. My work reveals a contemporary folklore that is both inherited and reinterpreted, and which is sometimes instrumentalised. I offer an alternative interpretation of reality, filtered through a fragmented yet lucid sensibility. I do not document. I compose, recombine and alter in order to reveal more.

Ultimately, Pause Longue unfolds as an emotional map of landmarks through which I attempt to chart the folds of memory, the mirages of culture and the silences of identity, situated at the intersection of the visible and invisible.