Presentation of the project :

D+ 24 of containment :

What are the chances of being confined twice in one lifetime?
How many times should I question myself?
How many times should I take out my recipe book to try everything?
How many kilos will I gain before I get my life back on track?
Should I make up for lost sleep or overcome the heaviness of those empty days to be more creative?

I've finally decided that this time it's gonna be different. It's been 30 years since I left home, but this time I've decided to go back and spend my confinement there, not knowing when I'll be able to go back to my life, my work, my routine... Nevertheless, in 30 years, everything has changed, I feel propagated in a parallel world that I don't really recognize. I'm aware that my parents are getting older. I'm aware that their habits have changed, and sometimes illness forces them. I'm aware that I'm the one who should be there for them today and not the other way around, but I didn't realize it until after the first week of confinement with them. It's hard to realize that your own mother has advanced Alzheimer's, that the end is closer than I'd like to believe, that I may not have spent enough time with her than I should have...

So I've decided to dedicate my containment project to my mother

Hichem Driss biography :

This artist was inhabited by photography from a very young age. He received his first camera at the age of 12 and from then on, he never stopped capturing his environment in images. After his baccalaureate, he chose to study in Paris at ESET where he graduated in 1993. During his training, he did numerous internships in France and Tunisia, familiarizing himself with a wide variety of techniques related to fashion and advertising. As a freelance photographer, he created in 2002 the "Barguellil" studio in Tunis, where he has been producing advertising commissions and personal projects (prints for artists, art books) ever since. He has presented his work many times in Tunisia and abroad, such as at the Fiesta des suds in Marseille in 1997 with "Voiles dévoilés" showing women's bodies fragmented by the gaze, "Le Grand Parcours" about the transformation of the GP1 road into a motorway and its economic repercussions at the 9th African Biennale of Photography in Bamako, "Lettres d'argile" with the IFC in Tunis in 2000, at the "Noorderlicht" Festival in the Netherlands with the series of images "A travers les côtes". This same series was presented at the Athens Month of Photography and at the Aperture Foundation in New York in 2006. In 2011, he participates in the project Inside out with J.R. The same year at Galerie KO21 in Paris he presents a series "Les Singularités anonymes" or "# 404" showing the struggle of Tunisian youth against oppression before the revolution. The same year he is present at the exhibition " Dégagements... Tunisia one year after" at the Arab World Institute. His series on abandoned hotels was shown at the exhibition "Effervescences" at the Institute of Islamic Cultures in Paris and at the collective exhibition "Reminiscences" in Talan (Tunis). He regularly exhibits at the Ghaya Gallery in Sidi Bou Saïd. As an attentive observer, he watches the changes that surround him both through nature as in his series "Traces", "Brouillard" or "mare Nostrum" where the elements are the creators of the captured image, but also through the imprint of politics on our environment as in the series "Sept fois c'est fini" or "Tout ça pour ça".