In exploring the body with his camera lens, Ion Grigorescu was also exploring that body, as an object, as it is positioned in space. While most often this was the confined space of the studio or apartment, which was the result of socio-political circumstances, we can also see this in the work that he did in the countryside. For example, the film “Man, Center of the Universe”, where we see the artist sprawled on the ground, a Vitruvian Man encircled by the globe of the earth, rather than an artificial, geometric circle.