For her 2009 project Un-possible retour, or ‘a possible impossible return’, Clarisse d’Arcimoles restaged old photographs of members of her family, juxtaposing the newly-created image with its original. Her laborious process resulted in uncanny, poignant meditations on the passage of time. ‘These photographs of my mother were taken when she was 5 or 6 growing up in South Africa’, she explains. ‘It’s very difficult to get the right angle and lighting. The moment when the original pictures were taken happened naturally in a snap, while its re-creation can take several hours of shooting … For this one I took 12 pictures for each pose, but sometimes I take hundreds; the tiny details make all the difference. It’s amazing how you can always recognize the person in the end, ageing is an ever-changing process by way of which familiarity and permanence can be found.’
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