Victoria
Ink on grained paper — sepia background and blue figure
Victoria is part of a series built around the same subject, the same chromatic tension, and a recurring dialogue between the blue of the figure and the sepia of the background. Each work in the series follows this shared visual language, while being created through a unique technique, specific to its own emergence.
Here, the female figure rises from a sepia background, almost telluric, as though emerging from ancient matter, buried memory, or an inner space long held in silence. The grained paper captures the ink, fragments it, and absorbs it in places, creating a presence that is both fragile and vibrant. The body is not represented realistically: it appears through traces, drips, fragments, and tensions.
The blue silhouette seems caught between falling and rising. One arm reaches upward, in a gesture that may evoke a call, resistance, prayer, or conquest. The title, Victoria, does not refer to a spectacular victory, but to an intimate one: that of a being who rises again and reclaims her body, her voice, and her space.
The sepia background creates an atmosphere of earth, memory, and constraint. Against it, the blue acts as a vital force: a color of tension, spirituality, and metamorphosis. The figure does not seek to be perfect or complete; she exists precisely through her incompleteness. She carries the marks of struggle, but also those of liberation.
Through this work, Hajar HAJJAMI explores the power of gesture as a language of emancipation. Victoria thus becomes the abstract portrait of a woman in motion, not frozen in victory, but captured at the precise moment when she wrests her verticality from chaos.
