American Album is a book of images captured on the road, chronicling a love story in the United States, at a time when the American dream seems to be crumbling. A journey where the protagonists are chasing something elusive while fleeing an undefined reality.

In this escape, landscapes scroll by, similar yet shifting, like endlessly renewing cardboard sets. Hotel rooms, diners with empty plates, colorful houses, desert landscapes - a frantic accumulation of frozen moments, like a compulsive cataloging of a desire to immobilize the ephemeral, an irrepressible need to capture everything, to classify everything. But beyond the fantasy, everything is changing. The backdrops fade, reverse, the quest seems to end then escapes again, in a grand spin, a gentle storm where bearings dissolve. In a dazzling and artificial America, the lovers jump from one movie to another without ever finding the exit.

The oil paint applied to the black and white photos accentuates this oscillation between reality and illusion. Sometimes faithful, sometimes dissonant, it reinterprets the world, giving each image a new dimension. Between softness and tension, between quest and desire, American Album captures that suspended moment, just before everything tips over.