DIVINE MEXICO (WORK IN PROGRESS)

When I arrived in Mexico, I was struck by the importance of religious iconography, 

particularly with the Virgen de la Soledad to which the citizens devote a true veneration. Representing the mother of Jesus after she had witnessed all the tortures of her son, from his crucifixion to his descent into the depths, the heavy look full of sadness of this woman, standing alone but remaining strong resonated all around me. At the bend of alleys, in cafes, through encounters, I found this same look in Jocio, a fifty-year-old prostitute who had to pay the debts of her deceased husband, in Joma, a young trans man from Oaxaca or in the muxes, these people between the feminine and the masculine, filled with maternal warmth, considered both monsters and saints…

Mexico and its contrasts, its colours and its shadows, its sacred and its profane have remained imbued in me. I want to meet these prostitutes or trans who fascinate and attract men while being ostracised by society. Their Madonna-like faces, their aura of loving mothers, contrast with their dark environment. Both an object of desire and disgust, I want to sublimate them in a photographic and pictorial project that would highlight their fascinating duality.