In 2015, I was beaten up in the street in Bordeaux because I was identified as a lesbian. When I went to the police station to file a complaint, the policeman told me it happened because of the full moon. This event is the starting point for Midnight Burns, a transmedia project combining experimental photography, poetry, ceramics and video, where I explore my trauma, the night and my feeling of rage. I am interested in how trauma can shape and define an individual, in both destructive and transformative ways.

Midnight Burns explores three cycles that are entangled: the moon cycle, the menstrual cycle and the aggression cycle. I use my menstrual blood as a matrix to alter my negatives, in this way, images become like an extension of my body from which I can work. From the altered negatives, I photographed the moon at different stages of its cycle and I also took an interest in the figure of the predator, the wolf, in relation to the feeling of being a prey in a public space. Through alteration, the images become survivors, between destruction and care, they exist despite and because of the damage they have suffered.