An empty bathroom for setting, captured in photographic instants. Filmed in her parents' house in Beirut, this series of images slowly defines horizontal and vertical lines, silently decomposing the frames of a window, a door, and a mirror. And one might feel that, apart from the transpiercing beams of light, this space is uninhabited. Then, as if in answer to expectation, fragments of a body come into view - feet, stomach, hands.

Beneath the grain of the image, like a grey fog, or a macroscopic view of the texture of skin, the entire body appears immersed in clouded water. It bustles, struggles, and throws itself violently against the embryonic sheath that seems to prevent it from bursting out of the image. Faint, far off sounds accompany this paradoxical struggle, while the barrier-screen becomes covered with black streaks, trails of blood.

This second part recalls Mona Hatoum's performances, in particular Under Siege, created in 1982, where she was naked in a glass case. She fought against the cold, for nearly seven hours, in perpetual movement.

Stéphanie Moisdon