Born from the collaboration between Yelena Yemchuk and Départ Pour l'Image co-founders Luca Reffo and Francesca Todde, Mise en Abyme is a spin-off of the previous book УYY, Україна Yelena Yemchuk, published in July 2022. If УYY appeared as a daydream in a backward journey from the present to youth, Mise en Abyme continues in the form of a phantom reflection of the gaze into the abyss of imagination. The original narrative – the sequence as a stream of consciousness – is rewritten through the montage of residual images of typographical proofs, enlargements, paintings and photographs. The process behind the book suggests endless and different versions that could ideally repeat themselves infinitely. Each copy of the book contains a unique and different folded original print, which is one eighth of a typographic sheet saved from being pulped.