Between 1981 and 1982, Jean Dubuffet produced 500 small paintings on paper, later titled Psycho-sites. These works depict indeterminate places inhabited by unspecific characters. In Site avec 2 personnages, as in the entire series, forms are blurred and decomposed, and the spatial relationships between elements are erratic, creating a composition charged with disordered tension. Figures with primitive contours float in abstract space.

Dubuffet described them as “ideas of characters who populate ideas of sites ... an enterprise aimed at escaping [the reasonable], at freeing the figuration and hence the vision.” For him, the Psycho-sites were not depictions of real places but “something more abstract, no more than the notion of place, without specificity of any kind.” He emphasized that both sites and figures lacked fixed identity, noting that the characters were “disproportionate, contributing to the ambiguity of the space in which they evolve.”