Serendipity - 2019

Serendipity, or the making of a chance discovery while working on some other subject, is particularly observable in the sciences and could be applied to Prune Nourry's artistic approach, from relevant correspondences to fruitful encounters. So when the artist learned in 2016, at the age of 31, that she was suffering from breast cancer, she became her own subject by force of circumstance, whereas until then she had thought she was taking an objective look at the world and its imbalances. Determined to remain both active and creative, she began by documenting her treatment on film, a process that resonated strangely with her past work. These premonitory coincidences gave the film Serendipity (2019) its title. The opening scene, shot insubjective camera, shows her on a stretcher navigating the corridors of a clinic on the way to the oocyte retrieval and freezing room prior to her chemotherapy