"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. The works - Self Portrait of the Summer I Have Left, Idols Camouflaged by the Tide and A Quiet Day (the last two painted during the quarantine at home, following the SARS-Cov-2 infection) - are projections of calm periods of the past, where the characters, although solitary, live to the fullest.