In the final years of her life, my grandmother lived at the Galignani nursing home in Neuilly-sur-Seine. It was there that I photographed her and the other residents. One of the portraits shown here is hers (slide 7). Photographing in this place was a very particular moment for me: these images were taken during the last moments I spent with her, shortly before she passed away.

In this space, time seemed to move differently. It felt suspended, somewhere between presence and forgetting, sometimes repeating itself in gestures, glances, and silences. Silence was never empty. It lived in the gestures, in the rooms, in the faces. Everyday objects became quiet witnesses to the passing of time, while the light slowly reveals the contours of lives shaped by time.

Silence is Speaking is an invitation to listen differently, to pay attention to what memory still whispers in the absence of noise. Between solitude and togetherness, tenderness and melancholy, the series reflects on our relationship with time and the traces it leaves behind.