Title: To Dance with the Devil
Artist: Mickaël Vis
Rue du Bouquet, March 2022
15 x 21 cm
272 pages
Softcover with obi
Design by Bizzarri-Rodriguez
Text by Rémi Coignet
French & English
ISBN: 9791097416591
“To Dance with the Devil” is a corpus developed around the character of Catherine, the photographer’s mother, who led a life of marginality until her death of AIDS in 1999. Being a drug addict, her relationship with her first son, Sébastien, was tumultuous. She introduced him to drugs; he became violent. She then fell in love with her own father. Mickaël is the son of this forbidden union. Through different temporal and narrative schemes, linking archive images, documents, texts, and contemporary photos, the book documents the principle of marginality and drift through the complexity of family, morality, and ethics, questioning the place of normality in the abnormal.
- From the publisher’s website
“To Dance with the Devil” is a corpus developed around the character of Catherine, the photographer’s mother, who led a life of marginality until her death of AIDS in 1999. Being a drug addict, her relationship with her first son, Sébastien, was tumultuous. She introduced him to drugs; he became violent. She then fell in love with her own father. Mickaël is the son of this forbidden union. Through different temporal and narrative schemes, linking archive images, documents, texts, and contemporary photos, the book documents the principle of marginality and drift through the complexity of family, morality, and ethics, questioning the place of normality in the abnormal.
- From the publisher’s website
