Since 2018, from archived photographs, Romain Philippon has started a personal diary, in the form of a dialogue with a writer. Reflecting on their identities and those of their children, but also on their territories where they live - multiple between Reunion and metropolitan France- they bring back a map of memories, both intimate and imaginary. "In the smallest as in the greatest happiness, there is something that makes happiness a happiness: the possibility of forgetting, or to say it in more scholarly terms, the faculty of feeling things, so long that happiness lasts, apart from any historical perspective, "Nietzsche explains in Inactual Considerations. So one should be able to forget in order to live happily, but is it possible to forget whilst photographing one's life ? Are the images produced pure nostalgia, and therefore restrict freedom and creativity ? Like Joel and Clémentine in Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (M. Gondry), the authors play with their memories, visual for one, and written for the other. Begun in 2018 with Yann Hamonet writing the texts, this work will continue until 2020 with Ben Mazué.
See the project, with all texts, here : www.antimemoires.fr