In the summer of 1993, Pepe Espaliú performed the action El nido at the Sonsbeek Festival in Arnhem, in the Netherlands. The artist built a small wooden platform around the trunk of a tree, as a kind of nesting area. The action consisted of walking in circles on the platform for eight days, taking off a piece of clothing each day, leaving the garments successively on the ground. On the final day, he walked naked. This is one of the final works by Espaliú, an artist who had been diagnosed as HIV positive three years earlier in New York, and who chose to visualise his struggle against the illness through his art. The action is further related to the more spiritual side of Espaliú’s work, with his interest in the whirling dervishes, known for the dance where they spin endlessly around the vertical axis of their own bodies, bringing them to a hypnotic, mystical state. Inside and outside, carnal features and a psychic dimension come together in Espaliú’s turning action.