The Survival of the Fittest

The Survival of the Fittest

The Survival of the Fittest documents the imaginary world of a circle of women and the ecosystems—real or mental—in which they evolve. The tightly framed portraits show the faces of women from my own circle, whom I transpose into landscapes marked by the collapse and mutation of a world.

My approach is rooted in performative interventions in which I stage the landscape itself: ephemeral installations, ritual gestures, traces left in the matter. It is not a simple backdrop, but a space of projection, a symbolic theatre where remnants of a world and the seeds of a new era intertwine. Here, nature is a living entity—resilient, and complicit with the women who inhabit it.

An extract from Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig accompanies the images, like an incantation. The passage, chosen for its political and poetic force, resonates with the photographed figures: it connects them to a collective memory, to a lineage of defiant women.