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In the dim light, the hand emerges like a fragment of presence, suspended between appearance and disappearance. It becomes a sensitive territory, brushed by a silent intimacy, unfolding like an open landscape, a place that welcomes what passes through without ever fully allowing itself to be grasped. The video then becomes a space of slowing down, where the gaze encounters a partial yet inhabited presence, crossed by a world in motion.

Yosr Ben Messaoud is a visual artist working between France and Tunisia. She is currently studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, after completing a degree in contemporary art and the humanities at the University of Vincennes. Her work includes video, photography, drawing, and installations, as well as hybrid forms that move between these different modes of expression. The variety of operative forms conveys an aesthetics of openness and suspension, where one is called upon to become a bridge, to welcome alterity in order to allow a new form of communion to emerge. In her practice, she examines questions related to the displacement of narratives and their survival, beginning from the intimate, through the creation of dispositifs conceived both as systems of reception, containers of experience, and circuits of narration—structures that become inhabited by what surrounds them. The axes shift incessantly between lived experience and affective facts, collected images and those that persist, the intimate and the collective voice, in order to reflect on the human condition—understood not as humanity at the centre of the world, but as part of its sensitive order, material, and social