The word “unknown” on the illuminated screen of the city. This ocular landmark, an exoticism or narrowness, an “apparition” whose presence from too far away causes a break or discontinuity between the side of the buildings, creates a gap in the spatial continuum. Here, the aesthetic or manual activities of passers-by, or the solitary wandering of individuals, are described. Transformed into a term that is specific, unwanted and absolute, this theatre of errors is not content with diminishing marginality or centrality. It is the complete self, with its own tangibility and pivot, endowed with a singular character and expression, characterized by its “usage of the word” and its tendency to “turn the other cheek” in the most diabolical and sublime of places.

There is something pitiless about this use of language: it is the equivalent of throwing oneself down, as one would expect an artist to do when confronted with an inability to make himself the master of a universe.