The time elapsed between two events, the time lost or gained, and, above all, the time devoted to leisure are at the heart of Masha Lazarevitch’s work. For her, logic and reflection on time become the pretext for a formal game whose process frees her from any lyricism or anecdote. She lets herself be guided by pre-existing codes like those of sudoku, weaving… (activities which are all hobbies, pastimes), which she doesn’t hesitate to appropriate and hijack. The result is a playful plastic language close to minimalism: simplicity of rules but complexity of solutions. The approach is based on the decontextualization of play codes selected from everyday . With Octrigamax – a variation on l’octogone in which, like Joseph Albers at the Bauhaus, she takes an interest in origami and industrial materials – Macha Lazarevitch starts from the principle of folding transposed to a monumental scale. The rigor of minimalism and a certain mathematical logic – each piece has the same elements, assembled in different ways – are matched by the strength of raw material and the modular aspect of presentation. (Genaro Marcos)