Biography
My work is concerned with our relationship to the past, as an intimate and performative experience that opposes a global, fixed and document-based
version of our history.
My process involves and mixes historical research, poetry writing, recording and (re)-staging. I mainly work at a small and local scale in order to immerse
myself physically and mentally in my subject, be it a building, a path, a photograph, a personal or an institutional archive…
Through still and moving images, sound and words, I try to appropriate and reveal hidden and small parts of our history. I consider my works as poetic
acts of resistance: they aim to liberate memory by questioning the unstable and volatile essence of the past.
Nathalie Joffre. November 2012.
