Emilie Danchin, Diep insight ~ deep Inside

photographic series, 2016

 

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Co-produced by diep~haven and the Minister for Culture and Communication, Normandy Regional Directorate of Culture, fight against exclusion department

 

If the photograph renders reality clearer, can it account for our sense of existence? In her consideration of the portrait, Emilie Danchin seeks to document the creative and relational actions which situate our sense of the personal within reality. In what becomes a creative gesture, she thus asks her models to consider illustrated topics, to which they might then become passionately attached and invest with a fundamental part of themselves.

The Diep insight ~ deep inside series pursues this dream of integration within a territory, invested here by a group of asylum seekers. With these individuals, she attempts to create a private place in spite of everything, which bears testament to reflexive notions of interior and exterior space, the real and the imaginary, the dream and the thought, in the form of photographic documents.

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Photographer, philosopher and therapist, Emilie Danchin could be considered an artist at the margin because her chosen field goes beyond the strictly photographic. It includes existential questions and participatory methods, whose values overlap with the clinical domain. Through participation in numerous exhibitions and conferences, she contributes to creating awareness of the metaphysical and therapeutic specificities of photography.