Chair-Mère

2024

Chair-Mère addresses the progressive erosion of language and memory through the lens of personal experience. Since 2019, the artist’s mother has lived with a neurodegenerative illness that gradually dismantles her capacity for words and meaning. Once a psychologist and writer, her voice is now refracted into fragments — phrases, images, gestures — preserved like fragile archaeological remains.

The work stages this disappearance as a poetic object: a site where presence and absence are held in tension. Between the materiality of words and their dissolution, Chair-Mère asks what persists of an individual, and of filial memory, when language itself disintegrates.