Video projection, 2 projections one beside the other. 2’55’’, 2012

“First image: Postcards from different places where i’ve lived fall from a wall. I try in vain to put them back up. Second image: my grandmother’s face. She refuses to answer the questions i ask her about my family. She speaks very little, mumbles, her face is tense, and at times on the edge of tears.”

Dès-origine attemps to formulate desire to understand, an unweaving. How to live in fragments? (of place, of life). It is an attempt to explore the point of origin the difficulty of finding it and, at the same time, the impossibility of ignoring it.