Magical or surviving image

Like sediment, at the heart of my practice I explore what I call the ‘magical’ or ‘surviving’ image : an image that is not limited to mere representation, but possesses the power to invoke and evoke.
I view each shot as a trace, a ritual, a fragment of memory capable of awakening symbolic forces and provoking instinct. These images emerge, persist, dissolve or return in an altered form. These interplays and games of fragmenting image & time break with the present to open up a mental space, akin to a dream or a reminiscence.

The remnant, the archive

The archive image is essential and omnipresent ; I reactivate old images — official, family or anonymous — which I appropriate, fragment and re-inscribe within new temporalities.

For example, in 3 ou 4 petits contes de guerre (2024), I blend oral narratives, voices and images of memory to reconstruct a space, hovering between documentary and fable. These fragments become the raw material for a poetic archaeology : the image is not fixed in the past, but set in motion once more, reincarnated. This exploration of persistence, reappearance and erasure fuels a deeper reflection on memory, and the possibility of regenerating our gaze upon the image, much like refreshing a web page.

I extend this research into my audiovisual performances (VJing). The images are never viewed solely through a narrative lens. They do not direct the viewer’s gaze towards a single & immediate meaning, but invite us to experience their textures, their weight, their fragility, their transparency, their internal flows, their density : the images breathe, contract and expand.

Whether using archive footage, original recordings or live production, I seek to reveal the hidden life of the image: what remains within it, transforms there or reappears. My audiovisual creations explore the way in which an image affects us, on a sensory level.

FILMS PROJECTION & AWARD
Marie-Anne Camax-Zoegger de Léo Lefrançois
2025 — MIFAC x Art Montpellier, FR
2024 — Institut Nat. d’Histoire de l’Art - Paris, FR
2024 — hors compétition - MIFAC - Angoulême, FR

3 ou 4 petits comtes de guerre de Léo Lefrançois
2024 — Cinéma Le Cosmos - Strasbourg, FR

Les jeunesses de Yvonne Debeaumarché
2026 — France 3 Grand Est, FR
2024 — France 3 Grand Est & France.tv, FR
2024 — Médiathèque Jean Falala - Reims, FR

Gaïaland, une tribu sous influence
de Yvonne Debeaumarché
& Hannu Kontturi
2023 — Arte & Arte.tv, FR
2023 — Prix Spécial de la Série
Festival TV de Luchon, FR
2023 — hors compétition - FIPADOC - Biarritz, FR
2022 — Planète +, CA
2022 — RTBF, BE

Le labeur et le sommeil de Léo Lefrançois
2022 — en compétition - Festival des-à-côtés
Lyon-la-forêt, FR
2022 — Cinéma Planète - Metz, FR

Voyance, Amour et Confinement de Yvonne Debeaumarché
2021 — France 3 Grand Est & France.tv, FR
2021 — Cinéma Silencio des Prés - Paris, FR

Reality is a dream collab. with Cosmic Neman
2020 — FAME Festival, Gaîté Lyrique - Paris, FR

Almadraba de Léo Lefrançois
2018 — en compétition - Festival VKRS
Brussels, BE

D.A.R.E. de François Carlier, Erdman Doumbé,
Jonathan Bricheux & Léo Lefrançois
2018 — Hip Hop belge 2.0 - Brussels, BE

LAST SHOWS
La fabuleuse marche & Memories — 2025
KROM at KALT — Strasbourg, FR - 2025

Ghost from 2092 — 2024
KALT — Strasbourg, FR

2092 — 2024
Madistan Festival - Cadrieu, FR

Modelshop — 2020-21
Avila - Strasbourg, FR

Ursula — 2018
collab. with Maya Perolini
Résonnances Festival - Brussels, BE

Hairvomit — 2017
Merci Beacoup Festival -Strasbourg, FR

CREATIVE GRANT
Racines en mouvement — 2025
second prize for photography
Geispolsheim, FR

Audiovisual creative grant — 2024
MIRA, Cinémathèque régionale numérique
Strasbourg, FR

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts — 2014-16
Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR)
Strasbourg, FR

International Exchange Media Art — 2014
Université du Québèc à Montréal (UQAM)
Montréal, CA

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR)
Strasbourg, FR

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