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A large collection of discarded photographs, found abandoned on the well-known Boulevard Arago in Paris, served as the starting point for this series of paintings. The photographs exclusively depicted antique French furniture—likely dating from the 18th or 19th century—establishing a direct historical and temporal dialogue with the surrounding area, one of the oldest districts in the French capital. These images, once left behind, became carriers of a silent past, offering a tangible link between the intimate scale of personal memory and the broader narrative of place.
Through the act of painting over these photographs, the series seeks to reawaken the memory embedded in these objects—not through faithful representation, but through fictional reconstruction. The interventions function as visual traces or clues, evoking the layered histories these furnishings have witnessed.