These photographs by Alessandro Cirillo are part of a single performative action of which he himself is the actor, somehow adopting its practice. Not only do the bodies of the migrants become image, but his plastic images of those bodies in turn become a single body, taking on its materiality and its agency. Whoever looks at these images does so through the eyes of the author, feeling the same empathy. One identifies with him, but also with the people portrayed, in their dramatic life experience, sharing a path of knowledge. There is, in theatre as in performance, a component of identification, of “becoming” image, as if what one does or sees became a material image with its own corpus and presence.