In face of serious disease, it’s easy to lose face. I don’t mean losing one’s dignity (though that’s not impossible either), but the weakening of our face’s representative function, when it becomes “absorbed” by other fragments of our body. An important aspect of perceiving one’s identity is not only the way in which an observer perceives the patient, but the manner (its intensity) of the patient’s identification with his or her condition – the extent to which it determines the self-evaluation and self-definition of the person subjected to the changes inflicted by the disease. Signalling certain characteristics of the illness to one’s surrounding causes it to be considered as one’s primary attribute. The face and its features are deprived of their representative functions, and recognising the person happens through identifying the deformations. In the Unwanted Intimacy series, paintings showing the body are constructed with the use of only three colours, which are derived directly from the hues of disinfectants: iodine, rivanol and gentian.