UN POIDS EN MOINS ?

In early 2021, Anaïs Virg, artist and anti-fatphobia activist, contacted me to begin a photographic collaboration. The initial aim was to document the everyday life of a fat person in her private life and her relationship with the outside world, while shedding light on the injunctions and difficulties that it implies. Then, in 2022, Anaïs decided to undergo bariatric surgery to alleviate her physical and mental suffering due to her weight. The collaboration thus took a new turn, focusing on Anaïs’ journey through the preparation, procedure and recovery of the surgery.

Combining portraits of Anais before and after the operation, medical documents, snapshots from Anaïs's phone and sentences from a diary, this project gives an insight into what Anais experienced throughout the process. The highs and lows, the questioning of her legitimacy to fight and deconstruct the beauty canon and, more generally, the weight of the standards imposed on our bodies by society.