At Saint Laurent Babylone in Paris, Daydreaming of Him presents a new photographic series by French-Australian artist Christopher Barraja, curated by Anthony Vaccarello. On view to 13 September 2026, the exhibition extends the house’s ongoing interest in contemporary image-making and sensual modernity. Saint Laurent are now also sponsoring film-making.

Born in 1996 and working between Paris and Nice, Barraja builds a visual language rooted in Mediterranean light, queer contemporary culture, and the emotional instability of memory. For him, Nice becomes less a place than a state of escape—soft, fragmented, and charged with nostalgia.

A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Barraja first gained attention with De Chlore et de Rosé, published by Fisheye Éditions in 2023, which earned the Picto Prize and led to his selection as a Hyères Festival finalist in 2022.

In Daydreaming of Him, images unfold through suggestion rather than clarity. Figures appear partial, gestures unresolved, and scenes suspended in a humid, almost cinematic haze. Desire is never explicit but implied, diffused across light, skin, and landscape. The environments are subtle, and express ideas of desire and carelessness.

The result is a body of work that hovers between intimacy and distance, where memory feels unstable and meaning remains deliberately open. Across the exhibition, looking becomes projection, and photography a space for meditation.

All works are available for sale, alongside a limited edition of one hundred signed fanzines, extending Barraja’s atmospheric world into a collectible form.

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