. book, photography
. 11.5 x 18.5 cm
. 1 copy per year
This photo book reveals the tendency we have to lend cell phones our cognitive memory capacities. This book consists almost exclusively of photographs. On the left pages, the photographs represent exhibition cartels I have visited. Each photograph is given a new cartel containing information relating to my way of archiving them (image file’s name, date of shooting, time of shooting). These photos are mostly poorly framed, blurred, overexposed. In fact, the objective in taking these photographs was only to make them hypomnematas, in the sense of memory support, as defined by Michel Foucault in “Self-writing”, Saying and writing published in 1983. Printing these photographs gives them new visibility and allows them to really act as a memory medium, which was not the case in digital version on my phone.
The right pages are to be unfolded in order to discover the original work which belonged to the cartel photographed. These are photos from Google Images, which could be called collective memory. This book takes the form of an archive with reflexive issues.