Begun in 2008, the series Vitrines was made in Paris during the economic crisis that caused the closure of many shops. Photographed from the street, the shopfronts covered with whiting no longer allow one to see inside the shops and make the gaze bounce towards the abstract form of the paint and the reflection of the urban environment settling on its surface. A hyphen between inside and outside, these images thus question the border between photography and painting, figuration and abstraction, document and trompe-l'œil. Printed large-format, the scale of the pictures gives the viewer two visions: the possibility of being enveloped and immersed in the image or of appreciating, from a distance, a tableau form. In the context of an urban landscape in perpetual transformation, these shop windows embody a liminal and transitory space. From transparency to opacity, the surface of the glass becomes the place of inscription of a history and the support of a useful and plastic gesture: between two uses of commerce and within the frame of the shop window, an anonymous person became a painter to condemn one vision and propose another.