"O merveille, qu’on puisse faire présent de ce qu’on a pas soi-même. O miracle de nos mains vides."
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Les Mains négatives 1978
Paris at dawn, waking up with Marguerite Duras' beautiful poëtics on the hands found on the walls of the Magdalenian caves of sub-atlantic Europe.
"...Les mains négatives is, just like the negative hands, a fossil of time. The image of the city glides past the camera, as nonchalant as time itself. With the words “thirty-thousand years ago”, the reality of the city suddenly becomes brittle. The hands are still present on the granite, but will the city still exist in…
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