"Society thinks it is alone, but there is someone." This phrase attributed to Antonin Artaud seems made to designate the work of Liu Bolin, master of the art of metamorphosis — a chameleon photographer whose ghostly yet determined presence at the centre of his landscapes amounts to a fundamental protest against a world that, in its technical automatism and unreason, aims to turn every living presence into potential waste. A mimetic artist of variable homochromy, he protests through the erection of his own body, a straight and living force standing among the ruins.