«Héritiers en mal d’ancêtres». L’art des archives et le récit de filiation

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of several photo projects by visual artist Andrei Nacu, who works with photography, the family album, and the family archive to rework experiences from the past. Simultaneously, it reflects on the interactions between image, history, and memory. The analysis employs the vocabulary of filiation, transmission, and inheritance commonly used in the humanities and the social sciences to understand contemporary ways of mourning related to catastrophes of the 20th century.