Romy's small Parisian bedroom is filled with lesbian, queer and sex worker friends and activists. Using humour and self-mockery as tools of protest, she weaves a subjective history of so-called dissident sexualities. The infinitely intimate is matched by the infinitely grand: scree slopes, waterfalls and peaks, all tinged with Eros. This book brings together and compares three series produced between 2019 and 2025: self-portraits (Things I imagined), intimate portraits (Just Us) and mountain landscapes (Vertige). They are accompanied by three short stories written by Romy Alizée that explore the themes of work, social class and friendship. Through a very oral style of writing, they shed a tender and comic light on her career as an artist.
Romy Alizée is a self-taught artist of Greek origin, born in Les Sables d'Olonne. Initially a model for exclusively male photographers, she quickly seized the photographic medium to tell a subjective story of emancipation, desire and lesbian identity, based on her own image and that of her community. Her work involves photography, film, performance, song, radio and writing, on subjects intimately linked to her own life. Her work, which is often collaborative, focuses more broadly on the blurred areas between submission to injunctions and reappropriation of dominant norms.

With a text in French by the artist

80 pages, 24 x 32 cm
Section-sewn, glued with printed hardcover

Rotolux Press, 2025
ISBN 979-10-96398-23-2