Off-limits, 2008

The photographic hands (the artist's), applied to the black passe-partout, seem to withhold an image that actually remains hidden from sight. The square at the centre is cut out; the black square at the centre, attached to the wall, is a "blind" vanishing point.
In this sense, the title alludes to the forbidden access or the insurmountable limit of the central cut-out, accentuated by the passe-partout and amplified by the gesture of the hands. Beyond the verifiable limits determined by the curtain-passe-partout, the virtual and immaterial dimension of the representation opens up, averting direct contact at each attempt to fix it.
The iconographic theme was conceived in 1999 – with a first version that is distinguished by the wrinkled central element at the back of the display case (GPO-1150) – and was developed in several variants on paper made between 2003 and 2005 (GPC-0959, GPC-1014, GPC-1019, GPC-1035).