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The space is designated by four perpendicular screens arranged around a square in which the two opposite corners are open so that visitors can walk in and out through them. The camera on the A side films the screen on side B, and vice versa, creating a closed circuit in which the female body from A and the male body from B appear in the same image but cannot touch each other. When a viewer enters side B, s/he occupies the man's space, the male body disappears and the viewer sees her/himself together with the female body in one space but cannot touch her. The same applies if someone enters from side A: they occupy the space of the female body and see themselves together with the male body but cannout touch him. If the viewer enters the centre of the space, s/he is present in both A and B, both the male and the female body disappear and the viewer sees her/himself alone. At this point, a photographer enters the picture and photographs the viewer. However, this happens only when the viewer is alone. The spectator can only view her/himself properly when no one else is there to disturb them. When the viewer enters the space together with others, then they will observe the chaos which a crowd creates in this perpetual motion circuit: neither the man, the woman, nor the photographer appear, and no photograph is taken.
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