Le Désir reveals mirror's complicity in power. The artist visited the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. When looking at the mirror, she saw the outer world through the windows behind her. The mirror is instrumental in capturing and confining the world inside the palace, doomed to endless duplication.

Just as Jorge Luis Borge says:“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.....Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate that universe." (Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, 1940)