The title of Perel’s performance, Hôte Cicatriciel, can either be translated as ‘scar host’ or ‘scar guest’, as the French word hôte shares the definition of both host and guest. Referencing Jacques Derrida’s lectures Of Hospitality, in which the philosopher posits the inherent ambiguity contained within the dichotomy of host and guest, Perel offers their body and its scars as an examination of belonging, woundedness, and the need for what Derrida refers to as ‘the Other’ in the meaning-making of ‘the Self’. The interactive performance makes urgent the precarity of status in relation to statehood, and both real and abstract forms of belonging, which are implied, coerced, or enforced, through care, control, regulation, and submission.