Fortuna
Brush-applied ink on grained paper — sepia background and blue figure
Fortuna belongs to the same series built around blue female figures emerging from sepia backgrounds. After Victoria, which evokes intimate conquest, and Gloria, which carries the idea of elevation and radiance, Fortuna opens a third movement: that of momentum, abundance, and destiny reclaimed.
The female figure appears standing, her arms raised, in a posture of almost ritual openness. She no longer seems only to be struggling to extract herself from matter; she seems to call, welcome, and summon. Her blue body, crossed by drips and vibrations, unfolds as an ascending force within a sepia background that still carries the memory of earth, constraint, and inherited structures.
At the base of the composition, curved forms evoke waves, ornaments, roots, or movements of energy. They give the figure an unstable yet powerful foundation, as though she were standing on the threshold of a transforming world. The gesture of the arms, widely opened upward, may be read as an invocation: not the passive expectation of luck, but the act of creating the conditions for one’s own turning point.
In this work, fortune is not understood as external chance or bestowed privilege. It becomes an inner force: the one that emerges when the body stops asking for permission, when speech rises again, and when identity finally accepts to occupy the full space that belongs to it.
Through Fortuna, Hajar HAJJAMI continues her exploration of female emancipation as a passage from silence to presence. The blue figure no longer merely escapes the environment that once contained her; she transforms it into a foundation. She does not simply survive imposed norms: she moves beyond them, crosses through them, and converts them into a force of appearance.
