No. 286, Sector E

The title of this action refers to the number by which Mirtha Cubas was identified during the seven years she spent in Sector E of the Penal de Libertad prison, in the Department of San José, Uruguay.

Tamara Cubas exposes herself before a double camera. A photographer shoots while another machine records the event. "Terrified, one might say, the Photographer must struggle so that Photography does not become Death", Roland Barthes reminds us (Camera Lucida, 1989).