Diploma project //

For my graduation project, I chose to explore the notion of testimony.
Testimony is defined as the declaration of what one has experienced as an individual, in a subjective and unique way. The most common form of testimony is oral, textual or iconographic. The impression is created that the story is frozen in a bygone era, and no longer exists at the present moment when we read it. How can we avoid freezing the story, and make it more real? How can we rethink the role of the "receiver"? Is the receiver obliged to keep a distance from the testimony, to remain passive to a story that doesn't belong to him or her? The aim was, with my grandfather, to create reminiscences of photos taken on the spot, which could never be revealed because his suitcase was stolen on the way back to France. He sent me one text per photo, and I proposed one object per text, trying to evoke his memory without betraying his word as a witness.