Hello, I am an independent self-taught curator based in Paris. I conceive exhibitions as performative protocols that can be activated by myself or others, unfolding through contingent interactions rather than static display. My curatorial practice is drawn to artistic strategies that embrace destruction, material transformation, and participatory engagement, questioning the exhibition space and its possibilities.
For several years, I have been conducting an ongoing research on disasters and their iconographies, focusing on the ways catastrophes are aestheticized, archived, and re-enacted within artistic and curatorial discourses. This inquiry extends to the traces of lost, vanished, or missing artworks, culminating in the Oblivion Collection, a participatory online archive dedicated to gathering remnants and spectral evidence of disappeared art. By engaging with the visual and conceptual residues of destruction, my curatorial research interrogates what remains, what is forgotten, and how disappearance itself might become an artistic gesture.
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Liquidation totale
Location
pal project
39 rue de Grenelles
75007 Paris
Dates
10 October 2024
10 November 2024
Photo credits
pal project
Press
Leopold Vassy in Hebdo du Quotidien de l’Art #2929
Artists
Andreas Achenbach, Alexander Adriaenssen, Pieter Aertsen, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, Yvette Alde, Estela Alliaud, Emii Alrai, Jenny Alten, Joseph Anton, Benjamin Arnault, Attila Bagi, Hermann Baisch Inès Barcy, John Bare, Payton Barronian, Marco Basaiti, Yoan Beliard, Louise Belin, Jean Baptiste Belin de Fontenay, Bernardo Bellotto, Gabriel Belot, Andrea Belvedere Nicolaes Berchem, Pauli Bertholon, Raphaëlle Bertran Pinheiro, Pierre Bertrand, Giovanni Battista Bertucci I, René Edouard Blanc, Carl Blechen, Sophie Blet, Carlo Böcklin, Jan Bogumil Plersch, Mathieu Bonardet, André Bordeaux-le-Pecq, Sandro Boticelli, Francesco Botticini, François Boucher, Celia Boulesteix, Olga Boznańska, Richard Brakenburgh, Leonaert Bramer Christian Hilfgott Brand, Józef Brandt, Georges Braque, Paul Braudey, Yves Braye, Gillian Brett, Karel Breydel, Józef Brodowski II, Tanya Brodsky, Willem Pietersz Buytewech, Gaston Jules Louis Cagenat, Valentina Canseco, Nathan Carême, Vittore Carpaccio, Claire Carpot, Carl Gustav Carus, Armand Charnay, Józef Chełmoński, Nicki Cherry, Alexia Chevrollier, Adam Chmielowski, Pieter Claesz, Léon Cogniet, Anne-Florence Cointrau, Ilke Cop, Gonzales Coques, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Antoine Coypel, Alix d’Anethan, Polidoro da Lanciano Rosa da Tivoli, Hugo Darnaut, Meyer de Haan, Jan Davidsz de Heem I, Delphine de la Roche, Cornelis de Vos, Emanuel de Witte, Hippolyte François Debon, Rolande Dechorain, Edgar Degas, Pietro degli Ingannati, André Marius Jules Delage, Roger Henri Delaporte, Georges Alfred Emile Delplanque, Paul Descelles, Félix Deschamps Mak, Leon Dołżycki, Natalia Domínguez, Adolf Dressler, Hans Dressler, Louis Jules Dumoulin, Jules Dupre, Albert Jules Édouard, Fritz Erler, Alexandre Espagnol, Clément Etienne, Robert Pierre Fachard Antonio Fernández Alvira, Maksymilian Ferning, Mariano Fetti, Anselm Feuerbach, Stefan Filipkiewicz, Dana Fiona-Armour, Govert Flinck, Albert Flocon, Henri Frachon, Ambrosius Francken I, Gérard François, Friedrich Frégevize, Lucian Freud, Jef Friboulet, Caspar David Friedrich, Ernst Fries, Bernhard Fries, Jan Fyt, Adriaen Gael, Pierre Gaillardot, Miguel Garcia, Vivancos, Laure Garcin, Germaine Gardey, Paul Gauguin, Michel Gemignani, François Gérard Wojciech Gerson, Marguerite Ghy-Lemm, Ignacy Gierdziejewski, Aleksander Gierymski Maksymilian Gierymski, Alfred Jules Giess, Luca Giordano, Luca Giordano, A. Gnasenapp, Arthur Golyakov, Romeo Gómez López, Ludivine Gonthier, Itamar Gov, Pierre-Adrien Graillon, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Rolland Guilloteau, Michael Gumhold, Wiktor Gutowski, Rafał Hadziewicz, Willy Hamacher, Ruiji Han, Kim Hankyul, Lise Harlev, Hans Hartung, Bayo Hassan Bello, Albert Heckenhauer, Robert Heitz, Adolf Hengeler, Tristan Higginbotham, Eduard Hildebrandt, Isamu Hirakawa, Johana Hnízdilová, Meindert Hobbema, Anders Holen, Gerrit Willemsz Horst, Theo Huber, Eugène Marie Léonce Huc, Tanea Hynes, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Knychaus), Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey, Daniel Jablonski, Christian Jaccard, Laurent Jacquot-Defrance, Jean Baptiste Janisset, Georges Jeannin, Eduard Kaempffer, Anish Kapoor, Korab Karl, Eduard Kasparides, Edmond Kayser, Apolonius Kędzierski, Michael Klahr I, Tristan Klingsor, Alfons Knogl, Tadeusz Korzon, Juliusz Kossak, Wojciech Kossak, Franciszek Kostrzewski, Aleksander Kotsis, Gabrielle Kourdadzé, Roman Kramsztyk, Édouard Krug, Robert Carl Kummer, Adolf Kunkler, Teofil Kwiatkowski, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Osa Lambert Scherdin, Michael Lancz, Emmanuel Lansyer, Pieter Lastman, Jean Jules Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Maurice Legendre, Philippe Lelièvre, Stanisław Lentz Carl Friedrich Lessing, Rudolf Levy, Paul Linke, Fra Filippo Lippi, Leopold Löffler, Claude Lorrain, August Lucas, Adrian Ludwig Richter, Emil Lugo, André Magaña, Jean Denis Maillart, Hans Makart, Jacek Malczewski, Louis-Claude Mallebranche, Carly Mandel, Edouard Manet, Johann Manskirsch, Karla Marchesi, Louis André Margantin, Roland Mascart, Jan Matejko, Henri Matisse, Stanisław Matzke, Josep Maynou, Francisco Melo, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Michelangelo, Joan Miró, Otto Modersohn, Claude Monet, Maurice Montet, Lou Motin, Bartolomé, Esteban Murillo, Masayuki Nagare, Yosi Negrín, Louis Neillot, Abraham Neumann, Lee Nevo, Erik Niedling, Reinier Nooms, Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Jacques Noury, Gustav Olbricht, Jan Kazimierz Olpiński, Patrick Ostrowsky, Nicolas-Marie Ozanne, Francesco Pacelli, Georges Pacouil, Paolo Giovanni Panini, Józef Pankiewicz, Luce Paris-Hilsum, Fryderyk Pautsch, Pierre Peltier, Pier Maria Pennachi, Jonathan Pêpe, Pierre Père Lacour, Nelson Pernisco, Laurence Petrone, Pablo Picasso, Jonge Lange Pier Pietersz, Antoni Adam Piotrowski, Nicola Pisano, Władysław Podkowiński, Laura Põld, Nicolas Poussin, Valentine Prax, Rebeka Racz, Johann Anton Alban Ramboux, Józef Rapacki, Rayb, Josef Rebell, Noushin Redjaian, Odilon Redon, Johann Heinrich Carl Reinhold, Stefan Reiterer, Li Li Ren, René Renaud, Tabita Rézaire, Hubert Robert, Louis-Paul Robin, Raymond Rochette, Henryk Rodakowski, Auguste Rodin, Salomon Rombouts, Johann Heinrich Roos, James Rosati, Piera Rossi, Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, Josep Royo, Jan Rubczak, Paul Rubens, Philipp Otto Runge, Charles Santoire de Varenne, Lassana Sarre, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Caroline Schattling Villeval, Anton Schiffer, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Wilhelm August Schirmer, Georg Philipp Schmitt, Heinrich Gustav Adolf Schmitz, Carl Schuch, Kristina Sedlerova Villanen, Roger Serpantié, Michel Serre, Maurice Serullaz, Finnegan Shannon, Henry Siemiradzki, Dennis Siering, Luca Signorelli, Paola Siri Renard, Yvonne Sjoested, Władysław Ślewiński, Frans Snyders, Gustav Adolph Spangenberg, Piotr Stachiewicz, Franz Steinfeld, January Suchodolski, Taavi Talve, David Teniers II, Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Rosa Tharrats, Katinka Theis, Jan Jerzy Thomschansky, Jacopo Tintoretto, Maurycy Trębacz, André Trèves, Edward Trojanowski, Lancelot, Théodore Turpin de Crissé, Léon Tutundjian, Henryk Uziembło, Sarah Valente, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Aert van der Neer, Jan van der Wils, Jan Josephsz. van Goyen, Mattheus van Helmont, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Jacob van Ruisdael, Dirck, Dircksz. van Santvoort, Herman van Swanewelt, Evita Vasiljeva, Pierre Vauthier, Philipp Veit, Rolande Vergé-Sarrat, Charlie Verot, Anthonie Verstraele, Jean Hégésippe Vetter, Pascal Vinardel, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Zygmunt Vogel, Vincent Voillat, Peter von Cornelius, Joseph von Führich, Heinrich Maria von Hess, Karl von Marr, Ferdinand Johann von Olivier, Olivier Johann Martin von Rohden, Moritz Ludwig von Schwind, Anton Alexander von Werner, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Adam Willaerts, Michael Willmann, Stanisław Witkiewicz, Adelbert Woelfl Karl Wohnlich, Witold Wojtkiewicz, Friedrich von Woldemar, Roger Worms, Marius Woulfart, Philip Wouwerman Leon Wyczółkowski, Stanisław Wyspiański, Marcin Zaleski, Stanisław Zawadzki, Elyn Zimmerman, Franciszek Żmurko
Statement
The history of art is written by what the millennia have left us. Museum storerooms are packed with artefacts, objects and works that have survived uncertainties, turbulences and tragedies. Yet what of those that have failed to present themselves to our contemporary eyes? Stolen and never found, lost over the centuries, vandalised out of misunderstanding, or destroyed in a natural disaster, each missing work is significant in how we construct our own history.
Numerous researchers and academics have investigated these losses, always through a specific prism, such as iconoclastic revolutionary periods, destruction linked to colonisation, missing inventory numbers in public collections, or vandalism in the field of contemporary art. Unfortunately, there are few opportunities for this research to meet, confront and feed off each other, which is why we have developed the Oblivion Collection.
Oblivion Collection is an online archive that attempts to sketch out a history of art through what millennia have hidden from our view. If the adage teaches us that history is written by the victorious, Oblivion Collection offers the losers, the invisible, the disappeared, the chance to exist in a new form, and to rewrite their own history. Any attempt to write history is, by definition, flawed, which is why it is essential for this project to be collective and participatory, in order to multiply as many points of view and ways of gathering information as possible.
Oblivion Collection has no limits. Having no geographical or chronological restrictions allows us to turn this collection into the ultimate vault, the memorial to works that are supposed to be forgotten. Bringing together this collection of lost works means overcoming the taboo of losing works of art. Unfortunately, every institution, every artist and every collection has experienced the loss of a work of art. Yet very few people speak out publicly about these losses. Being part of the Oblivion Collection is not a sign of negligence; on the contrary, it is proof of total transparency in the administration of a collection.
By inviting researchers, thinkers, institutions, artists and individuals to enrich this collection, we hope to help rethink the way we write our shared narrative and reimagine our relationship with objects and images. We plan to publish an online database of over 10,000 records by the end of 2024. This database will be accessible online and editable by anyone, enabling visitors to rediscover many works of art thanks to the power of hypertext links. Several events will be organised to bring these lost works back to life.
‘Liquidation Totale’ is the collective's first exhibition. The 555 visuals of works of art that have now disappeared span more than a thousand years of artistic production. All these reproductions are sold for €100, in support of the collective. Every 90 minutes, a photographic trace is randomly selected. If it has been sold, it remains on the wall; if not, it is dissolved in a vat of water in the middle of the gallery. In this way, everyone becomes a curator of the exhibition, an accomplice to these disappearances, a reminder of our collective responsibility in the face of the loss of works of art that occurs, re-enacting the survivor's bias that enabled the writing of history.