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In a drawer, archives resurface. Family photographs, letters, official documents. Some remain intact, others are crossed out, erased, marked by time or by the hands of those who sought to make them disappear. Fragments without a story, scattered, left behind without explanation.
This is not about reconstructing a history, but about inhabiting this void, passing through it. De l’air explores how vernacular imagery, silenced during the Black Decade, can be reclaimed through everyday gestures. What has been destroyed cannot be restored, but something can still be inscribed.
The archives are there—scanned, raw. They are not staged, merely placed before the gaze. Beside them, photographs of the present. Traversed places, insignificant objects, repeated gestures. They are images of nothing, yet they reveal everything that is missing.
This is not about filling the absence, but about giving it form. A letter that never arrived. An administrative document turned relic. A photograph that no longer tells a story, yet is kept nonetheless. De l’air does not seek to reconstruct, only to let what persists surface.
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