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Francesca Forquet

In the hometown of the Merchant of Venice, the Merchant of Amazon ties the knot. Jeff Bezos’s secretive wedding unfolds like a perfectly choreographed performance. In a city of masks and merchants, even a Bezos double can briefly steal the stage. Everyone knows something, but no one says a word. A discreet mega-wedding, flawlessly executed and impeccably delivered.
Francesca Forquet

Born from a fictional commission within Daria Addabbo’s meta-reality photonovel, this body of work became a real investigation into Marilyn Monroe’s myth. In Palm Springs, I use architecture, emptiness, and flash to explore isolation and the fragility of constructed identities, questioning the American Dream.