CREAM + COME AS YOU ARE

Laetitia Bica is a Belgian photographer who uses images to explore the territories where bodies, identities and imaginations meet and transform. In projects such as CREAM and COME AS YOU ARE, she develops a visual language that transforms each image into a space of metamorphosis and celebration.

She stays far away from offering a discourse on disability as a category. Her long-term work with artists from Creahm in Liège and, more recently, with artists from Ateliers Indigo in Brussels, focuses on inventive co-presence as an important issue in collaboration between artists. The work is a true choreography where each person transforms the other, with changing habits and the unexpected as the driving force behind creation.

In these images, the body is never an object. It is a living territory, sometimes dissident, capable of shifting norms and inventing other narratives. Faces become landscapes, forms blend together, identities hybridise. It is not a question of merging or fading away, but of coexisting, of fully inhabiting one's presence while leaving room for that of the other.

Between vulnerability and power, these works open up a sensitive space where difference no longer needs to be explained or corrected. It is a movement, a metamorphosis, a unique way of being in the world — together.