Usually, "whitewashing" is the fact of having white actors and actresses play the role of racialized characters (real or fictional). Here, Rébecca Chaillon appropriates this term to address the issue of skin whitening. In a performance piece that later originated the show Carte Noire nommée Désir, she explores, with Aurore Déon, the tension between being a cleaning woman in a white society and the care of oneself, as a black woman.