#DAILYMYSTERY

DAY 1: 30.10.2020
DAY 29: 27.11.2020

lockdown, Brametot
Normandy, France

INSIDE

The images are the  result of a “photographic exercise” during lockdown in Brametot (Normandy) at the atelier and residential house of a couple of artists in the countryside: the
painter and printer Delphine D. Garcia and the painter and former professor of morphology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, Jean François Debord.
During the odd period we all experienced in 2020, after the first lockdown and before the decision many states took to to close again boundaries, asking citizens to stay home, we enjoyed the freedom of movement and the chance to see again friends and family. A passionate of hatha yoga, I took this chance to see after a very long time my group on a short retreat in Normandy. There, a new friend, Delphine, invited me to stay for a couple of days at her home to show me her artistic work, introducing me to her husband. The news of the lockdown came and the couple generously proposed me to stay with them to enjoy the wonderful natural context and the bigger freedom we could have in the countryside instead of going back to my flat and be alone in Montreuil (Paris).
This marked the beginning of an intense and creative friendship, a month full of discoveries and a totally new experience for me, which had never lived in the countryside
before. For this lockdown, which seemed to me a sort of artist-in-residence, I decided to make another series of self portraits that I would post everyday on my INSTAGRAM personal profile. For this “photographic exercise” the main idea was to explore the universe I was immersed into. I had the intuition to play in a sort of Agatha Cristie’s
mysterious story. I founded the atelier and surroundings very interesting but also peculiar, as the two artists have particular passions and curiosities reflecting in their belongings.
Before the first lockdown the same Spring, I had never imagined myself as a possible photographic subject and I always focused my attention on other aspects.
However, in this unexpected and unique context, it was a vital impulse that guided me. The experience on the first long lockdown was positive, creatively and for my personal growth, so from the first day officially locked in Brametot, I restarted my daily exercise with a lighter approach, even more playfully, daring to be naked hidden in nature and pushing the process further.
I shared the construction of this funny digital project, which I had to make with my phone camera, as my equipment was at home in Paris, with Jean-François and
Delphine, who was especially helpful and involved every day, making possible some crazy ideas I came up with.