Ruy Blas sends 400 postcards from Nice to New Yorkers that he doesn’t know, that he chooses from the New York directory. This work is not a performance, but rather mail art, constituting an exemplary work taken from a series entitled Living absent in New-York, a series for which he will often draw on performance. Ruy Blas, without ever physically moving to New York, will employ a number of methods to make himself present there.