Conditionnel présent

action, photographic documentation, «blue back» print, 120 x 176 cm, 2019

Presented in the form of photographic documentation, Conditionnel Présent is the extension of the “lifeline” through an incision on the hand of a volunteer. Ambiguous, the act of scarification here becomes potentially conducive to a longer life expectancy.

The action brings together two seemingly opposing belief systems: palmistry, which reads the future in the lines of the hand, and transhumanism, which seeks to transcend the limits of the body and death through technoscience. Between superstition and scientific mastery, the work creates tension between these two ways of imagining and acting on the world