Witkin's photography, rich in its surreal and baroque influences, crosses established frontiers. It refers to religious episodes and classic paintings, but is also deeply marked by personal experiences. Against a dark and symbolic backdrop, full of busy people, the figures of animals and astrological references, two naked bodies, with dramatic poses and strongly gestural movements, flaunt their nakedness; one of the two is clearly a hermaphrodite. At his feet, a curled-up dog and a large fish resting on severed legs emphasize the sensation of finding ourselves in a theater of the absurd. Drawing elements from theater, the artist makes explicit his relationship with the representation. As spectators, we see ourselves catapulted into an artificial universe that nonetheless becomes extremely artistic if we are willing to perceive it as a materialization of the ghosts of the unconscious. All that the world considers beautiful is just one part of reality, full of contradictions and of internal struggles, in a continual return of the feelings of life and death.