Guillaume Simoneau creates fragmented, personal stories through photography. Fact gives way to perspective, and truth to opinion in his work, which unfolds nonlinearly. The series Murder (2016-2019), shot in Japan, touches on different poetic and symbolic relationships to birds, where the bird is at once friend, alter ego and protagonist. Photographs by the artist’s mother, Jean d’Arc Fournier, are put in dialogue with those of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase’s iconic series Karasu [Ravens], a work that plays a major role in the history of photography. Simoneau’s œuvre does not express existentialist anxiety, contrary to that of Fukase. Instead, it displays a fascination for situations in which vulnerability and power are found together. In this homage, the artist references the deceased Japanese master with both poetry and violence, where the lexicon of violence, inherited from Fukase, becomes a means of challenging that heritage.