Copper Plate, Engraving and Ghost Print, 2021
This project aims to catalogue all places whose significant events have been erased from history.
No plaque, however, commemorates these forgotten sites.
Their presence — or absence — is marked by a copper plate bearing a nearly vanished, mirrored inscription: Information Deleted. The gesture refers both to printmaking and to the circulation of information. Through this act, forgetting is rendered visible, even as a passage is opened: the passage of time that inevitably erases, but also the quiet passage of those who wish to remember in secret.
The ghost print of the plate is the final gesture — a faint and tangible trace of the erasure enacted. On this print, the engraving Information Deleted is more intuited than seen. It re-emerges only under certain light — both literal and metaphorical.
Presented at the former address of the now-defunct newspaper La Voix des Femmes, Rue de Trévise, Paris, France.
Carolle Sanchez 