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Arlette Farge
“It is like a kaleidoscope revolving before your eyes. Pausing for an instant, it fixes the precise shapes of imagined figures, which then burst into iridescent light before coming together in different configurations. These figures are ephemeral, and the smallest movement scatters them to produce others.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge
“The past has no unambiguous meaning, and nowhere is this clearer than in the archives.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge
“Just when you think you have finally discovered the framework underlying the way events unfolded and individuals acted, opaqueness and contradiction begin to creep in. Incongruous spaces emerge with no apparent connection to the landscape that seemed to be taking shape only a few documents earlier.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge
“The inventory room is sepulchral.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge
“Seemingly insignificant and unimportant details can reveal what was unspoken and outline lively forms of intelligence and reasoned understandings, interwoven with broken dreams and spent desires.”
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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