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L’accent fantômeet autres impressions séfarades

L’accent fantôme et autres impressions séfarades (2019 - 2023)

is an editorial project sitting at the intersection of design, history and literature. This book is a reflective journey on the issues of transgenerational transmissions and memories published by Aurélie Mosse in Press Universitaires de Vincennes.

Memory is sometimes nothing more than sensations, colours, rhythms and sounds that surface in our consciousness without warning, without a word about their origins.

Navigating between image and prose, L’accent fantôme et autres impressions séfarades is the story of an introspective journey in which words reveal the inner scene of an absence that has been repressed for too long. As she re-reads her work as a designer and researcher, Aurélie Mosse questions her Jewish origins, which have unconsciously shaped her creations. Each project carries with it a memory, an intuition waiting to be revealed and interpreted. Little by little, the book brings us closer to the hidden figures of her great-grandparents on her father’s side, whose memory she wanted to rediscover and honour. As if the void, the absence, could not take shape, could not become a tangible reality without passing through the act of creation.

Readers’ opinion La résonnance du concept de fantôme, d’absence, d’ombre familiale autour de soi, est tellement fine et travaillée, étirée comme une douce poésie, elle devient fascinante et… Tellement sensée !  The Witchy

Ce livre est un fragment d’une histoire personnelle qui s’inscrit dans l’histoire avec un grand « H », et qui souligne l’importance de comprendre notre histoire familiale pour construire son identité. Claiore

Un livre très original dont on tourne les pages au gré de son envie pour découvrir un objet, une réflexion, un sens. Une très belle présentation sur un papier glacé avec de jolies photos des objets travaillés par l’autrice. Un beau livre à offrir aux amateurs d’art et d’histoire. Recettesetrécits

Source: Babelio

Editor: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, collection Singulières Migrations. The book is available here in French.

Acknowledgement:  Book published with the support of the research laboratory of Ecole des Arts Déco (Ensadlab) and the EUR Artec. It has benefited from an ANR grant under the Investissement d’Avenir programme (ANR-17-EURE-0008).

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