1986 Superimposed errors

July 1986, I am two years old. On the banks of the Dordogne, Thierry and Marie-Martine are living their last summer together. For reasons that will remain mysterious, love is over, and Marie-Martine wants sole custody of their son. In order to forget, Thierry will leave to start a new life far away, in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia. June 2017, Marie-Martine lets herself be carried away by the waters of the Dordogne. After many years without communication with my father, it seems important to me to get back in touch. If only to tell him this sad news. A months later, I receive several sets of scanned photographs. In the batch of period photos sent, Maël discovers a file “1986. Superimposed errors”. The images come from a film that was unfortunately doubly exposed: a first time in the summer of 1986 in Dordogne, a second time, in Riyadh during the winter of 1987. "1986. Superimposed Errors" is an extremely disturbing and sensitive. Reading Matthieu Millou's enlightening text, the The unfolding images take on a whole new dimension and tell the story of the drama that unfolds. played in 1986 for Maël Lagadec, still a very young child, and for the couple that still form his parents. The "photographic accident" resonates, is deciphered and reveals the cracks in these three beings. This may seem like a sad and ordinary story of separation except that in this specific case the "magic" got involved, and the child's trauma, inevitable in these tragedies, finds some elements of response, even a relief. With modesty, Maël Lagadec puts it simply: “During the meditative hours of cleaning the dust accumulated on the new scans, I finally find meaning in this part of me in perpetual exile." As Clément Chéroux points out in his Fautography book. A short history of photographic error (Yellow Now, 2003), "it is in its shadows: its failures, its accidents and its slips of the tongue, that the photography reveals itself the most and is best analyzed.