In his serial project Family Project, Bonneville created drawings, installations, films and performances, based on the idea of family, exhibiting the past in the present, showing his origins, his context and the permanent marks of childhood traumas (“the family as a place of destruction par excellence, as the essence of evil”, he said). They were fragments of his attempts to understand how our origins, our education and the past, impose themselves on us and shape us. And how casting off these very impositions becomes a Herculean task.
