The Night Won’t Seem to End (2021-ongoing)
Video installation
Variable duration, colour 9:16 HD, sound

This series of silent video portraits deals with storytelling, oral memory, and intimacy. It repeats the same filming protocol: a person recorded themselves recollecting a personal story, then I filmed a second person, in one take, listening for the first time this memory I was entrusted with; after that, I asked the second person I had just filmed to tell in their turn something about them that would be recorded, and so on.

The Night Won’t Seem to End acts as a sort of fire camp — where one finds a confidant, whether in an old friend or a stranger, during a long night of deep conversations — with remote participants, enabling new paths towards intimacy. Doing so, I wish to create a subjective and ever-incomplete yet growing “encyclopedia” not of knowledge but of feelings.

Exhibition view of The Night Won’t Seem to End as part of the exhibition Small Talk (2024), SP/N Gallery, Dallas