The work as a place of memory

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written by Vinciane Vuilleumier · 25 March 2021 · 0 comment

Le Regard Libre N° 71 - Vinciane Vuilleumier

Hors Cadre« series, episode 2

Memory is elastic: it can be configured at will - and will it must. This requires a certain asceticism, of course, because in numbers, relief is lost: to choose is to renounce, said André Gide. And that's the key: to reduce the quantity of content that crosses our consciousness, to pay attention with discernment, so that certain content becomes a node in a memory network that can be chiselled like a work of art.

J'aime l’expression des lieux de mémoire, parce qu’ils peuvent naître à toute occasion, profondément intimes et pourtant communicables: ils sont les espaces métaphoriques qu’ouvre dans la conscience tout souvenir spatialisé d’un contenu intensément vécu. Ce sont des lieux vivants, qu’on visite à loisir, où lâ€

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