After ending his performance activity in 2005, Julien Blaine decided in 2020 to also end his activity as a visual artist and to get rid of all the production he accumulated during his life by organising at the Friche de Marseille what he ironically called Le Grand Dépotoir. He gathered and hung all his visual works and everyone was invited to come and choose a work to take away for free. The radicality of such a gesture and its provocative title, which borders with the artist’s self-derision, the contempt for the sacrosanct art market and the negation of the fetishism of the work of art, totally unprecedented in the history of art, has not failed to surprise and to be acclaimed internationally. Julien Blaine recounts the unfolding here, which began unexpectedly and overwhelmingly with the sudden government ban on any assembly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of social distancing and mandatory confinement, adding spice to the event.