Bourse du Talent 2026 : Flore Prébay

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The Waiting Room was born from the intimate experience of suspended time—the time that precedes loss.

My mother, living with two incurable neurological diseases, entered palliative care. For several weeks, I stayed by her side in a room that had become a space outside of time, where days and nights blurred together, where death was awaited while love, care, and hope continued to exist.

Faced with the impossibility of dialogue, photography became a way of remaining present, of holding onto what was fading away, and of bearing witness to the tenderness that endures beyond words. The images were made at the Jeanne Garnier Medical Centre and later in Biarritz, where I withdrew in the days following her death. There, the sea appears as a metaphor for the threshold, a passage toward the invisible.

Through this series, I sought to offer a truthful and luminous perspective on palliative care, far removed from the usual representations of the end of life. The Waiting Room evokes that profoundly unsettling in-between state where absence begins even before death, and where love remains—silent yet intact.

The photographs become spaces of memory, transformation, and transmission, where personal experience resonates with something universal.