“My residence in Shanghai coincided with the breakdown of a relationship and this was where I created The Emotion Recycling Factory, my factory for transforming emotions. I created voodoo objects in which I imprisoned my inconclusive love affairs.  For Souvenir d’un ange noir (Black Angel Memory) and Le Baiser du dragon (The Dragon’s Kiss), I devised the scratched mirror technique, in which we see a woman’s image appear through the mirror. This technique was subsequently much copied by the owner of the Island6 gallery in Shangai.  For Mon monde est clos (My World is Closed), I adopted the “Pepper’s ghost” technique used by Méliès, which enables the video image to be made to float by means of a two-way mirror. We see a man lying down, prostrate. Through him (and thus through the video) we can read a text which expresses a certain malaise. “