Renversement is a photographic installation that presents an image taken in Tahrir Square, Cairo, in February 2011, while I was living there. The image captures the reflections of protesters in a puddle of water, at the heart of the revolt. Never before exhibited, this photograph resurfaced recently. Nearly 15 years later, it takes on a new dimension.

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What the eye first captures is an inverted photograph: the printed image has been turned upside down, while the original version, right-side-up, only appears in reflection. This literal reversal refers to a more political shift—a way of evoking the overturning of systems that feed on the worst, but also the potential of uprisings to disrupt their order.

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In this work, the reflection is not a mere duplication: it is memory, displacement, and questioning. It reminds us of the fragility of revolts—It also speaks to their sudden and intangible force of emergence. It is through this double vision—reversed and reflected—that meaning is formed."

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