Paris Photo 2022

Figure pentagonale is the title of a set of six photographs, seemingly similar, but each with subtle differences. Each image features the same woman in two different positions, thus juxtaposing two temporalities: one draws a pentacle on the floor with chalk, while the other manipulates the carpet covering a theatre stage. Calling on the register of magic, the book in the photo assumes that it can influence the course of time by modifying fortune through chance, and in particular the probability of winning at games.
This series proposes a reflection on causality, and in particular on the existence of chance and fortune. Each small particularity of each photograph reflects different causalities, which suggests in a Pascalian conception that chance does not exist. Only the causality that originates in the future - fortune - is a key to explaining the present event.

Figure pentagonale is the title of a set of six photographs, seemingly similar, but each with subtle differences. Each image features the same woman in two different positions, thus juxtaposing two temporalities: one draws a pentacle on the floor with chalk, while the other manipulates the carpet covering a theatre stage. Calling on the register of magic, the book in the photo assumes that it can influence the course of time by modifying fortune through chance, and in particular the probability of winning at games.
This series proposes a reflection on causality, and in particular on the existence of chance and fortune. Each small particularity of each photograph reflects different causalities, which suggests in a Pascalian conception that chance does not exist. Only the causality that originates in the future - fortune - is a key to explaining the present event.

Figure pentagonale is the title of a set of six photographs, seemingly similar, but each with subtle differences. Each image features the same woman in two different positions, thus juxtaposing two temporalities: one draws a pentacle on the floor with chalk, while the other manipulates the carpet covering a theatre stage. Calling on the register of magic, the book in the photo assumes that it can influence the course of time by modifying fortune through chance, and in particular the probability of winning at games.
This series proposes a reflection on causality, and in particular on the existence of chance and fortune. Each small particularity of each photograph reflects different causalities, which suggests in a Pascalian conception that chance does not exist. Only the causality that originates in the future - fortune - is a key to explaining the present event.