NATALIE MALISSE
THE BIG HOUSE
Published by Editions du Caïd, 2024
First Blade Collection
Book size 15.7 x 22.5 cm
Hardcover
92 pages
Language French/English
La grande maison is a photographic project that takes a retrospective look at domestic violence. It puts into images the fragments of memory that populate the artist's nightmares, the better to tame "the night [that] brings us back to the memories that our days strive to forget". The black-and-white photographs and brief texts track down the mute shadows and invisible wounds of childhood in her father's house: objects and bodies, strange sculptures, become the almost abstract receptacles of inner anguish, but also breathes of consolation.
Text by the publisher
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La grande maison is a photographic project that takes a retrospective look at domestic violence. It depicts the fragments of memory that populate the artist's nightmares, to better tame "the night [that] brings us back to the memories that our days strive to forget". The black and white photographs and short texts track the silent shadows and invisible wounds of childhood in the paternal home: objects and bodies, strange sculptures, become the almost abstract receptacle of inner turmoil, but also of breaths of consolation.
Editor's text