"The Year The World Stopped" is the year when each of us was forced to suspend his/her lives in time. This is the moment when for an instant our noises, desires, dreams, nightmares and plans disappeared, everything evaporated and nothing was the same anymore. The characters, often males in a situation of self-isolation, are placed in sterile architectures or in the middle of a lush nature, reminiscent of the past. This inner/outer reminder describes an oppressive loneliness of the encounter between the man who was and the man who became. It only takes a moment of doubt for our entire inner structure to collapse. The first works in this series - Man in an Empty Italian City, Man in His House, Breakdown, Lockdown, Pandemic, Man Feeling Uncertain - were created during the period of total isolation in the spring of 2020 and addressed the issue of lifestyle change. Distance, loneliness in the couple, accumulated tension, fear, voyeurism, change of the way of communicating represent a reflection of the general situation.