Nanténé Traoré tells stories with words as well as images. Borrowing from the storyteller his role as scribe, recounting both what has been and what is to come, he seeks as much to document the present as to create a new iconography of the intimate. Both his photographs and his texts tell stories of tenderness, transmission and freedom, often narrated by bodies in movement, fluid and non-normative.

Through an almost infinite repetition of images, gestures and words, it is also a question, particularly in his most recent work, of compensating for the immense vertigo of what is missing in the world. His latest photographs are like collections in which human traces hybridize with the void, allegories of absence and loss, fragile memories in which love, joy and melancholy coexist.