With Chez Soi, Charles-Henry Bédué gathers the essence of his practice — contemplation, creation, transmission — to explore the experience of encounter. The project began during Unseen, Amsterdam, when a photographer invited him home. After a day among images from around the world, suspended in impersonal spaces, two modest portraits of her grandchildren, framed above a sink, appeared with force. This shift contained the project’s intuition: an image reaches its true power not only when exhibited, but when it finds a place. Invited to create works inspired by our lives, or by choosing one from his repertoire, each person takes part in a singular photographic narrative, from encounter to installation. The work no longer merely represents the home: it returns to it, becomes part of it, sharing the life that animates it.

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