THE COINCIDENCE

The Coincidence is an art-research memoir, began with an archive.

Going through years of work, I started noticing coincidences between my photographs and paintings.

The coincidences were found after the photographs were made. I wasn't inspired by these artists, most of them I didn't know.

The book is built on visual pairs: my photograph next to a painting from another era. As a conversation across time about what changes when the camera is held by a woman.

The text is personal and critical at the same time.

When my work stands next to Degas, you can see we were capturing the same thing: a woman when she stops performing. But from different positions. Degas was looking through a keyhole. I am let in — because I am one of them.

That shift in position — from observer to participant — is the core of the method.