Foukauld - Disappearance

Monograph

106-page trilingual monograph featuring 57 color illustrations, exploring themes of space, time, and photographic representation.

106-page monograph with 57 color illustrations, including trilingual essays by historian Inge Marszolek, Wolf Langewitz and Markus Oberndorfer. Last copies.

monograph, photography, landscape, trilingual, space

Markus Oberndorfer

Foukauld

Since 2005, the project has examined Nazi Germany’s concrete fortifications along the Atlantic coast around Cap Ferret. It explores their disappearance not only through erosion by sea, sand, and time, but also through human use, conversion, and appropriation. Through photography and longterm approach, the work traces layered processes of disappearance in relation to memory and history, revealing Cap Ferret today as a place where leisure, recreation, historical remains, and memorial space coexist. A second part of the project focuses on remembrance. Autrement on devient fou…, an interview with Henri Lavrillat, who was forced to build these fortifications during compulsory work service, accompanied by a series of photographs of functional architecture on Cap Ferret, now inhabited by holidaymakers, yet sometimes situated on the very sites of the wartime worker camps. Questions of place and time, culminated in Se Souvenir (2013), an ephemeral installation for which I pasted Lavrillat’s memories directly onto the walls he was compelled to construct.