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Our literary pick this month is The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie. Through photographing their moments after lovemaking, Ernaux and Marie create a ritual that captures desire and resists the passage of time. The book is a collaboration, with Ernaux’s writing alternating with that of Marie, the photographer and journalist. This interplay underscores the book’s central theme: the power of photography to hold onto what is transient, while also exposing the emotional weight of its passing.


¨The light from the flash gives the boot a devouring look. Makes me want to cut it out of the photo and stick it up somewhere as an illustration of male domination, though in reality my relationship with M. in no way correspsonds to this scene that is staged by the objects themselves.¨

THE SHOE IN THE LIVING ROOM, 15 MARCH 


¨I realize that I am fascinated by photos in the same way I’ve been fascinated, since childhood, by blood, semen and urine stains on sheets, or old mattresses, discarded on pavements; by the stains of wine or food embedded in the wood of sideboards, the stains of coffee or greasy fingers on old letters – the most material and organic kinds of stains.¨


RED SHAWL, 12 or 20 APRIL

¨I don´t know how to use the language of feelings while ´believing´it. When I try, it seems fake to me. I only know the language of things, of materials traces, visiable evidence. (Although I never stop trying to transmute it into words and ideas.) I wonder if contemplating and describing our photos is not a way of proving to myself that his love exists, and in the face of the evidence, the material proof they embody, of dodging the question for which I see no anser, ´Does he love me?´¨

- BRUSSEL, HÔTEL DES ÉCRINS,
ROOM 125, 6 OCTOBER

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