Pia Jacques
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Exposing Shadows Vol. I
Exposing Shadows
Installation with 6 grey cardboard binders and two publications
By investigating the possibilities and limits of the archive, I am trying to reveal the figure of an ancestor who haunts my family history. Numerous visits to the Belgian colonial archives at the Tervuren Museum combine issues of accessibility, conservation and the narratives imposed and altered by the passage of time.
Installation with 6 grey cardboard binders and two publications
By investigating the possibilities and limits of the archive, I am trying to reveal the figure of an ancestor who haunts my family history. Numerous visits to the Belgian colonial archives at the Tervuren Museum combine issues of accessibility, conservation and the narratives imposed and altered by the passage of time.
Exposing Shadows Vol. I
27 x 18 cm, 370 p., different papers
Exposing Shadows Vol. I explores the different possibilities of the book
form to hide and show the images from the past and its complexities. By analysing the
difficulties I encountered to meet and give form to the previous lives, I interrogate
its evolution through history until today.
Exposing Shadows Vol. II
Exposing Shadows Vol. II
27 x 18 cm, 102 p.
This second volume follows my journey during my one-year research
which led me to the first volume of Exposing Shadows . The book takes form in
three parts: photography, history and archive. Looking back at the different
paths that I followed while investigating the archive material, I present
my leading inspirations and different experimentations which occured during
my research and how unsuccesful results this last one led to.
Exposing Shadows Vol. II (publication)