The loss of memory - that important, sensitive memory which keeps emotions intact, that impossible memory, the rebel defeated by the passages of time - is glimpsed here as the metaphor for the loss of art, the loss of that creative emotion that springs from an exceptional instant. … The object of this loss is often represented materially by the photographs that are, paradoxically, quite visible beside the text. … The loss of the object creates the desire within the artist to recover it … It is a long search and he knows from the beginning that it will have no end.

Anne Dagbert 1986