Le devenir animal d’Isabelle Bachmann is part of the video series Les devenirs animaux, a homage to philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who stated that the body is not a structure, but a shape – or rather the material of that shape. Stéphane Manzone made a series of so-called ‘video drawings’, for which he framed bodies in split-screens, trying to give a visual representation through the countless lines engraved in the composure. This video shows the fragmented body of Isabelle Bachmann which, just before her labour, shows surprising signs of metamorphosis. Symmetrically spread out over nine ovular shapes, the overall image receives plastic characteristics, like a morphological puzzle of a fabulous animal-to-be.