Victor Burgin's Hôtel D (2009) is a site-specific piece consisting of a digital projection loop inside a box installed in a principle room of the ancient former pilgrims' hospital, Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques, in Toulouse.

Hôtel D comprises four components: the two actual spaces in the Hôtel-Dieu, an image-track and a soundtrack. The image sequence assembled from the photographs Burgin made in the Salle des Pèlerins is projected in a continuous loop in a "viewing box" constructed inside the Salle itself. The room represented in the box is therefore a mise-en-abyme of the room that contains the box.

Burgin says that the material images projected in the Hôtel-Dieu, and the material sound of the voix-off in the adjoining chapel, were combined in an attempt to represent the strictly unrepresentable.

Burgin says that in this work:

the unrepresentable "thing".... derives from my being there, in the Hôtel-Dieu in Toulouse, and being aware of the lives and deaths of those who were there before me, aware of the past function of the building, and at the same time aware of the forms of the architecture, of the time it takes to cross the room – everything, in fact, at the same time, including the connotations and fantasies that accompanied my perceptual experience and knowledge of the place.