This intriguing video of a performance by Françoise Sullivan was discovered in 2021. According to the artist, the work was never performed in public. Most likely dating from 1978, it combines two axes prominent in her work. The first is the relationship to the body. Having covered entire pages of newspaper lying on the floor with flat tones of acrylic paint, Sullivan then paints directly on her arm in a gesture that could be an experiment more related to body art than to the dance. The second axis is a form of journalistic communication that is obliterated, erased, blocked out by colour. The notion of erasure, of censorship in fact, is a feature of several projects from the 1970s. However, one may posit that this filmed performance heralded her subsequent return to painting and colour, notably in series with mythological content (Divins serpents, Je parle, Cycle crétois and Prométhée), that culminated in the 1990s with large, often monochromatic paintings in vibrant colours.