text: View of the exhibition “Para Museum” at Musée des beaux-arts Palais Fesch, Ajaccio (France), 2016 "Studies into the past" / Oil and palladium leaf on wood / 22 x 24 x 5.5 cm , 8 11/16 x 9 7/16 x 2 3/16 in / unique / Look of Prince Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (according to a work of François-Joseph Kinsoen) These paintings on silver background, from the Studies into the Past series, insulate the figure’s look depicted in paintings from the Palais Fesch collections to make pure presences, both enigmatic and oppressive. Haunting the museum space like an inquisitor’s spectrum, they seem to be watching the comings and goings of visitors.