Alice Diop first came across the prose poem by Robin Coste during an artist’s residency in New York. She then turned her attentions to it in 2023 as part of her Carte Blanche at the Festival d'Automne. Indeed, the text made such an impact on her that she decided to bring it to the stage. In it, the female narrator draws up an art history-related epic which goes in search of the ignored, objectified bodies of Black women.