In a small village in Alsace, on the edge of the Vosges, lived a family like no other.

The father, Claude, was the only person in the village who used a wheelchair. He lived up there, in a large house perched on the hill, separated from the others by a hedge of cedar trees. He died in August 2021.

His wife and daughter still live in this house, a place entirely designed and furnished around Claude's chair.

Even today, his presence is still felt: the freight elevator, the adapted bathroom, the kitchen table at the right height, the marks of his chair on the wooden doors, the converted car...

The house has become a silent witness to La Chaise's and his own passing.

It is in this space, both intimate and functional, that mother and daughter continue their lives, among the visible, sometimes cumbersome, traces of a father, a husband, and this object: this chair, which still embodies his presence.

Through this documentary series, I want to question how an object, a priori functional, can become the support of a family memory, an identity, a body. I am interested in the physical limits that this chair imposed, but also in the place it continues to occupy; in the house, in memory, in family life. It is a reflection on the way in which an object can sometimes take up all the space, to the point of eclipsing the man, my father, whom it served.

These photographs recreate family moments from the past, with Christine, Claude's wife, and me, their daughter, as the protagonists.