À contretemps, 2026

Bianca Cassandre   New & remarkable Artists

The photograph captures a moment of passage in a Parisian street. In front of an imposing red door, whose vertical lines almost entirely structure the image, a silhouette crosses the frame. Their body, driven by movement, contrasts with the massive and immobile presence of the architecture.

The composition rests on this opposition between stasis and movement. The details of the facade and the door give the image a rigorous structure, while the blur of the passerby disturbs it. The depth of the red dominates the scene and transforms an everyday architectural element into a true pictorial surface, before which the human figure appears momentarily before disappearing.

Through this photograph, Bianca Cassandre continues her exploration of movement in urban space and the ephemeral presence of bodies in the city. The blur does not conceal the subject: it records their passage. The image thus retains less of a person's identity than a trace of their existence in a specific place, for a fraction of a second.

Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 g/m², signed and numbered by the artist.