She collaborates with calligrapher Haruka Imako in different performances. While Armelle reads a passage from François-René de Chateaubriand's books, Haruka calligraphies on a self-portrait the text read translated into Japanese.

Installation part of the exhibition "Anatomy of a French family/ investigation in progress

Ingres and Chateaubriand have always played an important role in Armelle Kergall’s family.

The Stamaty family  (7 generations’s ancestors of Armelle Kergall )arrived in Rome in 1802. While expecting their first born, Constantin & Nanine Stamaty met François-René de Chateaubriand, the famous Romantic writer who, at that time was widely known for his success «Le Génie du Christianisme». They ask Chateaubriand to be their daughter’s godfather and name her. Taking his role to heart, he decided to name her after one of his heroines: Atala.

Later, the family go on to meet Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres who will become Atala’s painting master but also her foster father at Constantin’s death in 1817. This story has always been told as the genesis of the Kergall family.

 Here I create self-portraits using the poses of the members of the Stamaty family on the drawing by J-D-A Ingres (La Famille Stamaty, Le Louvre). I emboss or engrave by scratching the paper the prints of the texts extracted from Chateaubriand's short story: Atala, or passages from "Mémoires d'outre-tombe".