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This piece is also based on a book by Roland Barthes, i.e. «La chambre claire», which is about photography. For him, photographs that «talk to»our imagination contain a duality which he calls studium and punctum. Studium defined as spatiality and extension and refers to «concentration on something, without a specific focus, a form of general interest». Punctum means piercing, small opening, incision or riskness and introduces chance and the unexpected within the phenomenon of studium. My intention was to playfully work on this duality, as a cry in the