Suffering 2007   20 days in Shanghai

in Shanghai in 2007, at her first exhibition in China for more than twenty years, she showed Douleur (Suffering), a suspended length of white gauze patiently embroidered in red with words in French and Chinese and with everyday personal items – lipstick, a brush, a visiting card, a whisk – which she calls "little things": a new way of constructing a world, of appropriating a space. Indeed, it is "through 'little things' that she marks out her world, a small world full of mysteries whose intimate nature excludes us."