A Broken Rule is based on a performance realized by Meessen with collaborators in Burkina Faso. The video portrays African men taking turns carrying luminous text plates – often the only source of light in the image – through a nocturnal city. The activity is observed by an anonymous crowd and culminates in the moment of the completion of a sentence: "C’est beau une règle qui souffre" (A Broken Rule Is a Sight to See). Through the transfer of the raw recording of the intervention into slow-motion images, accompanied by a suggestive electronic soundtrack, the images are not only fictionalised but almost mythically charged.