Franco-Moroccan artist Mayssa Jaoudat uses photography to reclaim and represent identity. Her work, blending autofiction and experimental documentary, explores how feminine and postcolonial identities can break free from dominant and oppressive gazes. She seeks to capture a sense of space and presence — an inhabited void where an apparent calm reveals underlying tension. Balancing precision and the unpredictability of chance, her images convey a psychological depth, where vulnerability unsettles and provokes. By revisiting themes of desire, fragility, and mundane, she invites the viewer to enter a world where the need to be seen co-exists with the fear of full exposure. Her work has been exposed in the Fondation Fiminco, the Ile de France FRAC, the Casino of Luxembourg, and the CEAAC in Strasbourg.