This photograph shows actual conservators apparently in the process of working on the restoration of a panoramic painting in Lucerne, Switzerland. The title also evokes Wall’s own complex relationship with his artistic past.

Although Wall used a 360° panorama camera, he chose to capture only 180°, or half the panorama, digitally collaging overlapping exposures. This idea was important to Wall. ‘The exclusion of the space behind the camera is measured in a way that no other picture I’ve made is so closely measured… And of course there’s a woman looking into the space… into part of the picture you can’t see, to make a little accent to that notion that there’s a space outside.’ - Jeff Wall