The model is subjected to the installation, appearing lost and out of his depth (overwhelmed). He is part of a narrative (story) over which he has no control, neither of the meaning nor the action. He wanders in a space that either swallows him up or rejects him, being sentenced to transform himself indefinitely in search of a place into which he already knows he will not fit. The photographic experience (experiment) is first and foremost an encounter with a person. The future model is only given a minimum of information (nudity, possible dangers). He has no idea of the place (premises), of the elements that are going to accompany him or of the length of the shoot. Destabilising the model is essential to the shoot. This allows the construction of a fragile, imperfect figure: it is the last step to take the photograph. Photography is a closed cell that captures light and imprisons the present. Snatched up in this cell, if the human being wants to live he has no other choice except to exist in the simplest manner possible. Frightened or mocking eyes gaze at him as he faints, therefore losing his wish to fill us with wonder. Photographs are not legends; the spectator can see what he wants in them, the text can only contract and orient the possibilities. There is no right or wrong interpretation. Moreover, there is nothing to see or to understand if that is what one wishes.

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