Maxime
Fauconnier

  • Work
    • —Selected photographs
    • —The Beginning of Anything
    • —Cutting On Action
    • —The Dragon's Tail
    • —One's Island
    • —Julian
    • —On Escaping: One
    • —silence turns into a small road
    • —Bomb Sunrise
    • —All this dust between you and me
    • —Agadir: Street corner at night
    • —Central Park rain (positive/negative)
    • —Three entrances in Spain
    • —Confession Scene (River)
    • —There is an ancient Indian saying…
    • —FIREWALK
    • —Luciferin
    • —Talismans
    • —Time stood still (in development)
    • —Turning Points: One Year (in development)
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Work
Selected photographs The Beginning of Anything Cutting On Action The Dragon's Tail One's Island Julian On Escaping: One silence turns into a small road Bomb Sunrise All this dust between you and me Agadir: Street corner at night Central Park rain (positive/negative) Three entrances in Spain Confession Scene (River) There is an ancient Indian saying… FIREWALK Luciferin Talismans Time stood still (in development) Turning Points: One Year (in development)
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  • Confession Scene (River), 2022

    Color photographs and typewritten screenplay pages on A4 paper, framed.

    In a pivotal scene in My Own Private Idaho (1991) directed by Gus Van Sant, Mike Waters, played by River Phoenix, confesses his love for his best friend Scott Favor, played by Keanu Reeves. The two friends sit beside a campfire off the road in the desert of Idaho. Mike’s longing at this moment is existential. The world presses in on and crushes him—as it does us all—and he utterly lacks the armour of self support, the sword of self love, with which to defend himself. Here, revealing his fragility to Scott, it is a yearning to be held, to be seen and to be accepted*.

    The scene (the last one to be shot for the feature film, per Phoenix’s request) with its fragile yet powerful dialogue, depicts an inability to belong in a way that feels adequate. It resonates with my experience of having to navigate a queer identity that has been sometimes at odds with my environment, education and peers. These extinguished campfires that I’ve documented over the years specifically symbolize one's perceived late arrival in life; the feeling of sacrificing one’s identity by fear of taking someone's more legitimate place in the world.

    Each photograph of the series is framed alongside a typewritten dialogue transcript of three A4 pages.

    *On the Unflinching Sadness of My Own Private Idaho, Rob Parker, 2020.

  • Confession Scene (River #1), 2021

  • Confession Scene (River #4), 2021

  • Screenshot from an extended scene between Mike and Scott beside the fire as featured in "My Own Private River" (2012), James Franco's re-imagining of "My Own Private Idaho" (1991).

  • Confession Scene (River), 2021 (dialogue transcript)

  • Confession Scene (River), 2021 (dialogue transcript detail)