Since Sasha, the series she devoted to her daughter's passage from child to adolescent to young woman, in an intimate, dreamlike mode close to the fairy tale, Claudine Doury has kept questioning this in-between of age, body and time; where, until now, men appeared only fleetingly as extras in her images, they move to the heart of L'Homme nouveau, a series made entirely in St Petersburg, its title echoing both the Bolshevik revolutionary imperative and the moment of mutation when the adolescent hatches into a man. In-between, border crossing, Ovidian metamorphosis: it is this singular, unique moment of crisis and self-arrival that the artist strives to capture and decipher, questioning masculine identity itself and claiming, as a woman, the right to look at men the way men have long looked at women, a recent and hard-won "female gaze".