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From 1998 black grounds take over the studio, and the bodies, their flesh more transparent and more flayed, seem to lose themselves in the depth of the canvas while moving towards the viewer. In 2001 the series of 110 small Falls begins: the obsession with falling takes on all the more meaning after 9/11.

“Two panels meet edge to edge as if, from that centre, I were still waiting for the mouth of shadow to open – or to suffer? – and close again.”