Paradox: the archive, built to preserve, becomes itself an act of forgetting.

What was once meant as a document, a fixation of the real, becomes an entry into the unreal. Photography, whose purpose was to hold, to preserve, now speaks of what slips away. The meaning is reversed: not to show ‘what is’, but to underline ‘what never was’. The image of a person turns into a sign of absence. Paradox: the archive, built to preserve, becomes itself an act of forgetting. The photo ceases to witness life, it becomes a witness to the impossibility of presence.