ta mère - Elea Jeanne Schmitter

TA MÈRE (your mum / go f*** yourself), 2020 was presented during the JUSQU'ICI TOUT VA BIEN exhibition at Palais de Tokyo curated by Hugo Vitrani, JR, Ladj Ly and Mathieu Kassovitz.

The project seeks to shape the various issues of the under and poor representation of people who identify as women within the institutional environment.

In these images, I abandon the form of authority a photographer holds over its subject, what you see are directed self-portraits. They are in control of the trigger, of their image, and hold in their fists a form of decision-making power.

The idea is to spotlight women as figureheads of change in their area of expertise. Activists, artists, writers, journalists, actresses from associations, sex workers, economists, mothers, project managers, directors, musicians, gallery owners: all of them evolve in their community as change makers .

By not stating what each person does, I let the viewer confront their own stereotypes that they might afflict upon each woman by seeking out their identity. Without an answer, we can delve more deeply into these intimate and revealing portraits.