The courtyard of the Arsenic is transformed into a public square. A man stands in the centre, in a glass casing. A bit further off, cement is churning in a cement mixer truck whose pipe ends up within the casing. We see no workers, the man is alone, the cement is flowing. The man still has a chance of escaping: he holds two hammers in his hands… “With cement, I work with this material’s energy of death. This is not an intellectual posture, it’s a physical reality. To face it I have to work on myself to fill myself with an energy of life. I stage a ritual killing of man by cement. But there is a possible outcome.” Yann Marussich. After the glass cycle, in which the performer wrestled with kilos of broken glass, Yann Marussich began a new cycle of work in 2018 around cement, still searching for the limits of his body.