Her series « 22 Loggerstraat, Zaandam » takes place in her grandparents’ house in Zaandam, north of Amsterdam. Through her lens, this place becomes a true theater where three gen-erations of women—the grandmother, the mother, and the artist herself—exchange roles, clothing, and even faces, thanks to silicone masks cast from their features. These unsettling scenes, which create a space where the boundaries between self and other, past and present, heritage and personal identity become blurred, raise a fundamental question: what is passed down from one generation to the next? Through her attention to the details of daily life, domestic rituals, and subtle forms of mimicry, Noémie Ninot is part of an artistic tradition that explores the social constructs of gender and representations of the family. Her work also has universal significance, as it examines how we gradually become the custodians of the lives that came before us. 

This book marks the emergence of an artist whose work offers a unique take on the themes of representation, family memory, and the construction of identities. Through her images, Noémie Ninot reminds us that identity is never constructed in isolation: it is made up of borrowings, repetitions, transmissions, and metamorphoses, in a dialogue between per-sonal memory and collective history. The book includes an essay by art historian Jilke Golbach, an interview between Noémie Ninot and artist Katerina Jebb, and an original short story by novelist Louise Chennevière.