Muay Thai (Thai Boxing) is a form of martial arts practiced in large parts of the world,
including Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries.
Referred as "The Art of Eight Limbs" hands, shins, elbows and knees are all used extensively
in this art which is supposed to be used mainly for defense purposes.
Behind Muay Thai is a study of what’s happening behind the ring, in the backstage, where fighters pray and meditate before their next fight.

The work shows the fighters getting hyped up by the coaches,
the embrocation of words matched with the ritual embrocation of tiger balm smeared
over the fighters' wiry torsoes.
The heat, the scents and rituals create a near religious atmosphere, a calm before the storm of the ring, a backstage atmosphere where glances of weakness and humbleness anticipate the violence that is to come.