Nicolas Sénégas' photographs convey a mixture of opulence and fragility.

Often using religious iconography to tempt our gaze.

His contemporary saints slide across gender lines, holding vice and virtue in the palm of their hands, and all the while asking themselves the question: "Who is who?"

A play between reality and artifice emerges in his images, between the imaginary and what it makes emerge from appearances. The photographer does not deny the idea of conditioning but at the same time creates a critical impregnation of the gaze directed at the subjects in ceremonies arising from a certain chaos.

Nudes serve to track down a kind of unconscious through photographic play.

Each portrait becomes a rebus.

It allows us to understand the importance of archaic backgrounds. The photographer transforms his model into an archetype. And this is the meaning of a large part of his work. Each individual possesses their share of humanity that holds them back from death, from life. The power of the photographs brings out a truth of sublimated incorporation.