Samuel Perche's career is part of a personal and collective story, between intimate stories and community struggles. Once an actor for theater and television, he moved to Reunion Island, graduated from the Ecole supérieure d'art in 2017 and began exhibiting his work as a painter and sculptor. "I am a gay artist. It is the prism of all my work." In the background, in his words and in his work, this need for repair is expressed, for the care of individual and collective wounds, of traumatized imaginations of the past and the present. If identity is what passes through the body, "revealing the intimacy of gay desire" stands as a new paradigm to question the silenced and invisible parts of a "queer" identity in motion. It is through an aesthetic, both poetic and political, that he explores the idea of desire, bodies and homoeroticism, to question their representations. ©Leïla Quillacq, 2024