Memory and Inscription

Photography maintains a singular relationship with memory. Since its origins it has been associated with the capacity to preserve traces of reality and to produce visual archives of time.

In Alice Odilon’s work, memory does not appear as a simple preservation of the past but as a process of inscription and transformation. Images become surfaces on which traces of experience are deposited.

The texts gathered in this axis examine how photography constructs forms of visual memory. They question the relationship between recollection, image, and archive.

This research therefore explores photography as a space in which the past is reconfigured and where memory becomes an active construction rather than a simple retention.