Atlas of the wounded buildings

The artist walks through a city. It matters little where it is, in Europe, in one of the many streets where not even a century ago the buildings were destroyed by bombing and scarred by war. He is looking for these very traces, trying to read the buildings as if they were a book, to watch them as if they were a documentary. The testimonies, however, are disappearing, not only because those who lived through those moments are no longer there, but also because the signs, sometimes thought to be indelible, are being removed or neglected. Buildings have been rebuilt, renovated, plastered, whitewashed. Bullet holes can barely be seen. Yet they tell of a past that is not remote, on the contrary, and should draw attention to what might happen again, to the ebbs and flows of history. They suggest narratives, they are a time machine.