This material cartography represents the known and unknown places that make up my cultural identity. The work is a trace of lived displacements and presents relics of passage. By displaying personal objects alongside collected ones, the installation blurs the boundary between autobiography, archive, and individual and collective memory.

The souvenir spoon and the diasporic experience converge : one brings back a place, the other carries it within without having chosen it — sometimes without even knowing it.

The invisible field of this work is a archival collection held at the Musée du Quai Branly, comprising photographs of ritual spoons dating from the 19th century. Taken in a colonial context and subsequently museified, they form the off-screen of this installation, questioning what heritage retains on one side and erases on the other.

The work is necessarily evolving : spoons are still missing, as are postcards from cities that make up this cartography — to be completed at the rhythm of findings and transmissions.