“I don’t have enough ego to forget that the world is collapsing”

Pop palette, surreal atmosphere, trash humor … However, with the series Last Paradise et The Touristrespectively presented this summer in Tours. However, Arles, the Canadian photographer and director revisits her classics. For example, In these stories with disenchanted glamor, the star of self -fiction, 43, embodies a bimbo on vacation. Nevertheless, Between kitsch shots and melancholy images, Kourtney Roy kills time, and seeks love.

Madame Figaro . Consequently, – What is your state of the moment?
Kourtney Roy. Therefore, – Tired. Furthermore, I work on the script for my next feature film with a “i don’t have enough ego writer. Meanwhile, The beginnings are always exciting, but also very headache.

Talking about you on a promotion, a chore?
I don’t like to talk about myself, but my projects, I love it.

The question you fear?
“Tell me about your journey”, and “What does this photo mean?”. I don’t like monologues, and I have no lessons to give.

Your news?
Exhibitions The Tourist, in Arles, and Last Paradisein Tours, as part of the Swiss Life price with 4 hands. And the release of Kryptic. My first feature film, in the United States and Canada, while waiting to find a distributor in France…

A more important news than yours?
Gaza-Israel, Ukraine-Russia, Trump … I don’t have enough ego to “i don’t have enough ego forget that the world is collapsing.

Your last fad?
Write my dreams upon waking up.

Your character in The Tourist ?
An uneducated cougar with peroxidized hair and long nails, which likes money. She wants to surround herself with beautiful men, swimming pools, lead an easy life where everything is in plastic.

We always bring my work closer to that of Cindy Sherman. which flatters me. But the analogy is easy …

Kourtney Roy

Your. points in common with this role?
There is always a part of me in the characters I embody. I never judge them. This tourist may be superficial, but after all, why not? She is happy, and assumes “i don’t have enough ego herself as she is, without tackling her soul or the brain. What I admire.

One of your language elements?
“Vulgar.” Like this tourist whose holidays are those that we will never do.

What you say when you look at the mirror in the morning?
Nothing. When I prepare, I do the void, as if I were elsewhere.

Why do you have to go see your exhibitions Last Paradise et The Tourist ?
To laugh, to have fun, to forget for a moment the real by tilting into fiction.

A misunderstanding concerning you?
We always bring my work closer to that of Cindy Sherman, which flatters me. But the analogy is easy: certainly, it stages itself, but its intentions are different from mine. His self -portraits seek to deconstruct stereotypes in a form of social criticism. While in mine, I create imaginary worlds in which I would like to live. “i don’t have enough ego Everything is based on fantasy, escape, humor and the pleasure of the game, not on gender theory. My work is not a feminist.

On the set of my last film. which was very stressful, the teams thanked me for never having stuck in crisis

Kourtney Roy

What. do you like you say about you?
That I am calm. On the set of my latest film. which was very stressful, the teams thanked me for never having bitten a crisis. Under pressure, I know how to keep my head cool.

Your mental charge of the moment?
My solo show at the Les Filles du Calvary gallery, in Paris, in October-November. Everything is possible and “i don’t have enough ego nothing has yet been decided … a fairly intimidating challenge.

The last time you were proud of you?
Yesterday, when I managed to install a new filter for my shower, while I am not at all a handy.

The criticism that makes you happy?
That we didn’t understand anything about my last film. What is true! You have to love the ambiguous, the bizarre to be able to appreciate it.

What are you going to do after this interview?
Go to the Picto laboratory Recover a photo draw.

“Kourtney Roy, The Tourist”, from July 7 to October 5, at the Arles Meetings. Dating-arles.com
“Last Paradise”, until September 20, at the game of palm-château de Tours. Jeudepaume.org