{"id":1012,"date":"2026-06-22T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:39:20","slug":"larchive-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;archive Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1013\" src=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza5_petit-1536x877.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Archive impossible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sur l&#8217;image d&#8217;un \u00e9v\u00e9nement qui n&#8217;aura jamais eu lieu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>L&#8217;interdit de l&#8217;image<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Il y a des guerres qui nous parviennent par exc\u00e8s d&#8217;images et d&#8217;autres par leur d\u00e9faut. Le conflit qui oppose Isra\u00ebl au Hamas appartient, en grande partie, \u00e0 la seconde cat\u00e9gorie. Depuis octobre 2023, l&#8217;acc\u00e8s ind\u00e9pendant des journalistes \u00e0 la bande de Gaza est refus\u00e9 ; les organisations de d\u00e9fense de la presse, au premier rang desquelles le Comit\u00e9 pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ), documentent une interdiction quasi totale d&#8217;acc\u00e8s m\u00e9diatique international, doubl\u00e9e d&#8217;une censure et d&#8217;un nombre de journalistes tu\u00e9s sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent dans l&#8217;histoire r\u00e9cente. Quelques photographies nous parviennent, arrach\u00e9es au si\u00e8ge ; d&#8217;innombrables \u00e9v\u00e9nements, eux, demeurent sans trace.<\/p>\n<p>Ce que cette situation institue, ce n&#8217;est pas seulement une lacune informationnelle : c&#8217;est un interdit de l&#8217;image, une logique de l&#8217;image manquante \u00e9rig\u00e9e en politique du visible. La privation de documentation n&#8217;est pas un accident, elle est produite. Et elle pose, frontalement, la question de l&#8217;archive et de la trace : que reste-t-il quand le \u00ab \u00e7a-a-\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00bb photographique \u2014 ce que Roland Barthes nommait le no\u00e8me m\u00eame de la photographie, l&#8217;attestation qu&#8217;une chose a r\u00e9ellement \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u00e0 \u2014 n&#8217;a pas pu avoir lieu, faute d&#8217;appareil, faute d&#8217;\u0153il, faute de droit ?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 cet interdit r\u00e9pond, en miroir, une saturation. Le vide documentaire n&#8217;a pas produit le silence : il a produit le faux. Les chercheurs parlent aujourd&#8217;hui de \u00ab militarisme synth\u00e9tique \u00bb (Kuntsman et Stein, 2026) pour d\u00e9crire la production industrielle d&#8217;images d&#8217;atrocit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9es par IA ; d&#8217;autres analysent l&#8217;\u00ab esth\u00e9tique de l&#8217;absence \u00bb de ces images, qui suscite la compassion tout en d\u00e9politisant la sc\u00e8ne. Le champ visuel de cette guerre est donc tendu entre deux p\u00f4les : une absence impos\u00e9e et une fabrication prolif\u00e9rante. Archive impossible travaille exactement dans cet \u00e9cart \u2014 et doit, pour exister, s&#8217;en d\u00e9marquer absolument.<\/p>\n<p><em>Du \u00ab \u00e7a-a-\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00bb au \u00ab cela aurait pu \u00eatre \u00bb&lt;<\/em>br \/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Mon geste est un d\u00e9placement modal. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 Barthes ancrait la photographie dans l&#8217;indicatif pass\u00e9 \u2014 le r\u00e9f\u00e9rent a \u00e9t\u00e9, n\u00e9cessairement r\u00e9el \u2014, je fais glisser l&#8217;image vers le conditionnel, vers un futur ant\u00e9rieur n\u00e9gatif : non plus le \u00ab \u00e7a-a-\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00bb, mais le cela aurait pu \u00eatre. Et plus radicalement encore : l&#8217;image d&#8217;un possible qui n&#8217;aura jamais eu lieu.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;espace latent rend ce d\u00e9placement pensable. Si l&#8217;on admet qu&#8217;il est la possibilit\u00e9 du possible \u2014 un r\u00e9servoir de configurations d&#8217;images jamais actualis\u00e9es \u2014, alors il peut faire office d&#8217;archive d&#8217;un autre genre. Non l&#8217;archive de ce qui fut, mais l&#8217;archive d&#8217;un virtuel, saisi dans sa fragilit\u00e9, son impossibilit\u00e9. C&#8217;est ici que je rejoins Ariella A\u00efsha Azoulay : sa notion d&#8217;\u00ab histoire potentielle \u00bb (Potential History, 2019), prolongeant le \u00ab contrat civil de la photographie \u00bb, pense l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nement photographique comme porteur de potentialit\u00e9s non r\u00e9alis\u00e9es, dont le regardeur reste comptable. Mon \u00ab archive du possible \u00bb en est le pendant plastique : rendre visible non ce qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9, mais ce qui aurait pu l&#8217;\u00eatre. Mais non pas dans sa perfection mim\u00e9tique au r\u00e9el, mais dans une suspension de la g\u00e9n\u00e9ration.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est aussi pourquoi l&#8217;archive, ici, ne regarde pas vers le pass\u00e9. Jacques Derrida, dans Mal d&#8217;archive (1995), rappelle que la question de l&#8217;archive n&#8217;est pas affaire de pass\u00e9 mais d&#8217;avenir, de promesse et de spectralit\u00e9. L&#8217;image latente n&#8217;exhume rien : elle promet un \u00e9v\u00e9nement, le fait revenir comme revenant. Et ce que Deleuze nommait la \u00ab puissance du faux \u00bb (L&#8217;Image-temps, 1985) n&#8217;est pas ici un mensonge sur l&#8217;actuel, mais la cristallisation d&#8217;un virtuel \u2014 la seule mani\u00e8re, peut-\u00eatre, de donner forme \u00e0 ce que l&#8217;interdit a soustrait au r\u00e9el.<\/p>\n<p><em>L&#8217;image manquante<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Je ne suis pas seul sur ce seuil, et m&#8217;y inscrire est une mani\u00e8re de me pr\u00e9munir contre le soup\u00e7on de fabrication. Le titre m\u00eame de ma s\u00e9rie salue Rithy Panh : face \u00e0 l&#8217;absence d&#8217;images du g\u00e9nocide khmer rouge, L&#8217;Image manquante (2013) ne simule pas le r\u00e9el disparu \u2014 elle en figure le manque par des figurines d&#8217;argile, assumant l&#8217;\u00e9cart entre la trace et l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nement. Ma d\u00e9marche est structurellement la sienne, transpos\u00e9e au diffusionnel : non combler le trou, mais le rendre sensible.<\/p>\n<p>Georges Didi-Huberman offre la formule qui m&#8217;accompagne. Dans Images malgr\u00e9 tout (2003), r\u00e9fl\u00e9chissant aux quatre photographies arrach\u00e9es \u00e0 Auschwitz, il d\u00e9fend l&#8217;image comme \u00e0 la fois n\u00e9cessaire et insuffisante, ni toute-puissante ni nulle : il faut imaginer \u00ab malgr\u00e9 tout \u00bb, contre l&#8217;argument de l&#8217;inimaginable. Produire l&#8217;image malgr\u00e9 l&#8217;impossibilit\u00e9, sans jamais la pr\u00e9tendre totale ni probante : voil\u00e0 ma r\u00e8gle. \u00c0 quoi r\u00e9pond la \u00ab lacune \u00bb du t\u00e9moignage chez Giorgio Agamben (Ce qui reste d&#8217;Auschwitz, 1999), cette impossibilit\u00e9 structurelle de t\u00e9moigner pleinement, dont le \u00ab t\u00e9moin int\u00e9gral \u00bb est la figure muette. Mon entre-deux est une mani\u00e8re plastique de rendre cette lacune \u2014 non de la suturer.<\/p>\n<p>Et c&#8217;est encore le programme de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard : pr\u00e9senter qu&#8217;il existe de l&#8217;impr\u00e9sentable (Le Diff\u00e9rend, 1983). Rendre le manque de l&#8217;image dans la fragilit\u00e9 de son ind\u00e9cision, ce n&#8217;est rien d&#8217;autre que cela \u2014 faire voir qu&#8217;il y a quelque chose qui ne se laisse pas voir.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;entre-deux : ce que le noise rend visible<\/p>\n<p>Ma question la plus insistante n&#8217;est pas \u00ab quelle image manque ? \u00bb mais \u00ab que se passe-t-il entre deux images ? \u00bb. Entre deux prises de vue subsiste un intervalle, et c&#8217;est dans cet intervalle qu&#8217;op\u00e8re l&#8217;interdit : non dans l&#8217;image absente prise une \u00e0 une, mais dans le brouillard qui s\u00e9pare et relie celles qui demeurent.<\/p>\n<p>La pens\u00e9e de l&#8217;intervalle a une histoire. Deleuze en fait le lieu m\u00eame de la pens\u00e9e cin\u00e9matographique : l&#8217;interstice, la coupure irrationnelle, l&#8217;\u00ab entre-deux images \u00bb o\u00f9 le tout cesse d&#8217;\u00eatre donn\u00e9. Raymond Bellour en fait un territoire propre (L&#8217;Entre-images, 1990). Et Aby Warburg, avant eux, nommait Zwischenraum \u2014 l&#8217;espace-entre \u2014 cet \u00e9cart entre les images o\u00f9 le sens advient, principe de son Atlas Mnemosyne tel que l&#8217;a relu Didi-Huberman. Mon travail est une iconologie de cet intervalle.<\/p>\n<p>Mais ici la th\u00e9orie et la technique co\u00efncident mat\u00e9riellement, et c&#8217;est le c\u0153ur de la s\u00e9rie. Dans un mod\u00e8le de diffusion, le noise n&#8217;est pas une m\u00e9taphore : c&#8217;est le substrat litt\u00e9ral de l&#8217;image, le bruit gaussien d&#8217;o\u00f9 le d\u00e9bruitage fait lentement \u00e9merger une forme. Travaillant sous ComfyUI, et avec un mod\u00e8le de diffusion que j&#8217;entra\u00eene moi-m\u00eame \u2014 interpolations slerp entre deux codes latents, inversion DDIM, sous-capacit\u00e9 d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e comme levier esth\u00e9tique \u2014, je fais de l&#8217;\u00ab entre-deux \u00bb un objet op\u00e9rable. Le chemin de d\u00e9bruitage devient l&#8217;intervalle ; la zone sous-d\u00e9termin\u00e9e de l&#8217;espace latent devient le brouillard entre deux prises de vue. Le brouillard de la guerre, ind\u00e9cision \u00e9pist\u00e9mique, et le bruit du mod\u00e8le, ind\u00e9cision g\u00e9n\u00e9rative, se rejoignent dans une m\u00eame op\u00e9ration. C&#8217;est cette double ind\u00e9cision que la s\u00e9rie rend visible.<\/p>\n<p>On mesure ici, par contraste, ce que je ne fais pas. Les \u00ab images op\u00e9ratoires \u00bb de Harun Farocki sont des images sans destinataire humain, faites pour la machine et la cible. Les miennes font l&#8217;inverse : elles rendent l&#8217;absence \u00e0 l&#8217;\u0153il, elles r\u00e9clament un regard et une lenteur.<\/p>\n<p><em>Le partage du visible<\/em><\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;interdit de l&#8217;image est aussi un partage : une d\u00e9cision sur ce qui a le droit d&#8217;appara\u00eetre. Jacques Ranci\u00e8re nomme \u00ab partage du sensible \u00bb cette distribution de ce qui se laisse voir et dire, et interroge, dans Le Spectateur \u00e9mancip\u00e9, l&#8217;\u00ab image intol\u00e9rable \u00bb qui exc\u00e8de le r\u00e9gime de l&#8217;admissible. Judith Butler, dans Ce qui fait une vie (2009), pense le \u00ab cadre \u00bb qui d\u00e9cide quelles vies sont dignes d&#8217;\u00eatre pleur\u00e9es, quelles existences peuvent m\u00eame appara\u00eetre : la distribution diff\u00e9rentielle de la pleurabilit\u00e9. Quand le journalisme est interdit, c&#8217;est ce cadre qui se referme \u2014 certaines vies sont soustraites au visible avant de l&#8217;\u00eatre \u00e0 la vie. Et Susan Sontag, Devant la douleur des autres (2003), demeure la balise \u00e9thique : se garder de l&#8217;image qui console, comme de celle qui anesth\u00e9sie.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contre le simulacre : rendre le manque<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Il faut nommer le risque, parce qu&#8217;on me l&#8217;objectera. Formellement, g\u00e9n\u00e9rer l&#8217;image d&#8217;un \u00e9v\u00e9nement non photographi\u00e9 ressemble \u00e0 la fabrication d&#8217;images d&#8217;atrocit\u00e9 que d\u00e9nonce la critique contemporaine. La diff\u00e9rence est tout \u2014 et elle est th\u00e9orisable.<\/p>\n<p>Mon image ne contrefait pas une pr\u00e9sence : elle indexe une absence. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 l&#8217;image de propagande synth\u00e9tique produit un faux \u00ab \u00e7a-a-\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00bb, un simulacre qui passe pour preuve, Archive impossible inscrit le manque dans l&#8217;image. L&#8217;ind\u00e9cision, le flou, le bruit n&#8217;y sont pas un style mais un op\u00e9rateur \u00e9pist\u00e9mique : ils d\u00e9clarent le statut non probatoire de l&#8217;image, ils l&#8217;emp\u00eachent de se faire passer pour document. C&#8217;est la traduction plastique exacte du \u00ab malgr\u00e9 tout \u00bb de Didi-Huberman et de l&#8217;impr\u00e9sentable lyotardien.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est pourquoi je me tiens aussi \u00e0 l&#8217;oppos\u00e9 de la contre-forensique. Forensic Architecture et Eyal Weizman reconstruisent l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nement supprim\u00e9 \u00e0 partir de traces mat\u00e9rielles : d\u00e9marche probatoire, qui rend au r\u00e9el sa preuve. Je fais l&#8217;inverse. Je ne reconstitue pas ce qui a eu lieu ; je figure ce qui aurait pu avoir lieu, pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment parce que cela ne peut pas \u00eatre su. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 la forensique vise la d\u00e9tectabilit\u00e9, je vise l&#8217;ind\u00e9cidable. La s\u00e9rie ne se substitue pas par la simulation au r\u00e9el : elle maintient ouvert l&#8217;\u00e9cart, et fait de cet \u00e9cart son sujet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Une m\u00e9moire allog\u00e9n\u00e9tique<\/em><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est dans mon propre appareil conceptuel que la s\u00e9rie trouve sa place. Archive impossible est le n\u00e9gatif de Compl\u00e9tion (le r\u00e9el sera son double), o\u00f9 je compl\u00e9tais des photographies historiques : l\u00e0 je prolongeais une image existante, ici je g\u00e9n\u00e8re l&#8217;image d&#8217;un \u00e9v\u00e9nement jamais capt\u00e9. Ce que j&#8217;appelle parar\u00e9alisme \u2014 un r\u00e9el \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du r\u00e9el, et non contre lui \u2014 y atteint son cas le plus pur ; la m\u00e9moire allog\u00e9n\u00e9tique n&#8217;est plus seulement la m\u00e9moire de ce que le mod\u00e8le produit d&#8217;ailleurs, elle devient l&#8217;archive de possibles \u00e9v\u00e9nementiels jamais actualis\u00e9s ; et la r\u00e9manence achronique se fait persistance d&#8217;un non-\u00e9v\u00e9nement, image qui revient sans avoir jamais eu lieu.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;espace latent, d\u00e8s lors, n&#8217;est pas un magasin du \u00ab \u00e7a-a-\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00bb : il est l&#8217;archive d&#8217;un \u00ab cela aurait pu \u00eatre \u00bb. Une ontologie sans ontologie, appliqu\u00e9e non plus \u00e0 la g\u00e9om\u00e9trie latente en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, mais \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9v\u00e9nement lui-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<p>La s\u00e9rie commenc\u00e9e avec le conflit ukrainien trouve ici sa seconde station. D&#8217;une guerre \u00e0 l&#8217;autre, ce n&#8217;est pas une chronique que je construis, mais une iconologie de l&#8217;intervalle \u2014 une mani\u00e8re de tenir, face \u00e0 l&#8217;interdit de l&#8217;image, non la consolation d&#8217;un faux t\u00e9moignage, mais la fid\u00e9lit\u00e9 au manque.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ ENGLISH<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.375rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"1:1-1:21;0-20\">Impossible Archive<\/h1>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"3:1-3:60;22-81\"><em>On the image of an event that will never have taken place<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\" \/>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"7:1-7:32;88-119\">The Prohibition of the Image<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"9:1-9:612;121-732\">Some wars reach us through an excess of images, others through their dearth. The conflict between Israel and Hamas belongs, in decisive part, to the second category. Since October 2023, independent journalistic access to the Gaza Strip has been denied; press-freedom organizations, foremost among them the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), have documented a near-total ban on independent international media access, compounded by censorship and a death toll among journalists without precedent in recent history. A few photographs reach us, wrested from the siege; countless events remain without a trace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"11:1-11:539;734-1272\">What this situation institutes is not merely an informational gap: it is a <strong>prohibition of the image<\/strong>, a logic of the missing image erected into a politics of the visible. The deprivation of documentation is no accident; it is produced. And it raises, head-on, the question of the archive and of the trace: what remains when the photographic <strong>&#8220;that-has-been&#8221;<\/strong> \u2014 what Roland Barthes called the very noeme of photography, the attestation that a thing was really there \u2014 could not take place, for want of a camera, of an eye, of a right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"13:1-13:639;1274-1912\">To this prohibition there answers, as in a mirror, a saturation. The documentary void did not produce silence: it produced the false. Researchers now speak of <strong>&#8220;synthetic militarism&#8221;<\/strong> (Kuntsman and Stein, 2026) to describe the industrial production of AI-generated atrocity imagery; others analyze the &#8220;aesthetic of absence&#8221; of such images, which arouses compassion while depoliticizing the scene. The visual field of this war is thus stretched between two poles: an imposed absence and a proliferating fabrication. <em>Impossible Archive<\/em> works precisely within that gap \u2014 and must, in order to exist, set itself absolutely apart from it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"15:1-15:58;1914-1971\">From the &#8220;That-Has-Been&#8221; to the &#8220;That-Could-Have-Been&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"17:1-17:360;1973-2332\">My gesture is a modal displacement. Where Barthes anchored photography in the past indicative \u2014 the referent <em>was<\/em>, necessarily real \u2014 I shift the image toward the conditional, toward a negative future perfect: no longer the &#8220;that-has-been,&#8221; but the <em>that-could-have-been<\/em>. And more radically still: the image of a possible that <em>will never have taken place<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"19:1-19:672;2334-3005\">The latent space makes this displacement thinkable. If we grant that it is the possibility of the possible \u2014 a reservoir of image-configurations never actualized \u2014 then it can serve as an archive of another kind. Not the archive of what was, but the archive of a virtual. It is here that I join <strong>Ariella A\u00efsha Azoulay<\/strong>: her notion of <strong>&#8220;potential history&#8221;<\/strong> (<em>Potential History<\/em>, 2019), extending the &#8220;civil contract of photography,&#8221; conceives the photographic event as bearing unrealized potentialities for which the viewer remains accountable. My &#8220;archive of the possible&#8221; is its plastic counterpart: to render visible not what was recorded, but what could have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"21:1-21:571;3007-3577\">This is also why the archive, here, does not look toward the past. <strong>Jacques Derrida<\/strong>, in <em>Archive Fever<\/em> (1995), reminds us that the question of the archive is not a matter of the past but of the future, of promise and of spectrality. The latent image exhumes nothing: it promises an event, brings it back as a revenant. And what <strong>Deleuze<\/strong> called the <strong>&#8220;powers of the false&#8221;<\/strong>(<em>The Time-Image<\/em>, 1985) is not, here, a lie about the actual, but the crystallization of a virtual \u2014 perhaps the only way to give form to what the prohibition has subtracted from the real.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"23:1-23:21;3579-3599\">The Missing Image<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"25:1-25:521;3601-4121\">I am not alone on this threshold, and to inscribe myself within it is one way of guarding against the suspicion of fabrication. The very title of my series salutes <strong>Rithy Panh<\/strong>: faced with the absence of images of the Khmer Rouge genocide, <em>The Missing Picture<\/em> (2013) does not <em>simulate<\/em> the vanished real \u2014 it <em>figures its lack<\/em> through clay figurines, assuming the gap between the trace and the event. My approach is structurally his, transposed to the diffusional: not to fill the hole, but to make it perceptible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"27:1-27:729;4123-4851\"><strong>Georges Didi-Huberman<\/strong> offers the formula that accompanies me. In <em>Images in Spite of All<\/em> (2003), reflecting on the four photographs wrested from Auschwitz, he defends the image as at once necessary and insufficient, neither all-powerful nor null: one must imagine <strong>&#8220;in spite of all,&#8221;<\/strong> against the argument of the unimaginable. To produce the image <em>despite<\/em>impossibility, without ever claiming it to be total or probative: that is my rule. To which answers the <strong>&#8220;lacuna&#8221;<\/strong> of testimony in <strong>Giorgio Agamben<\/strong> (<em>Remnants of Auschwitz<\/em>, 1999), that structural impossibility of bearing full witness, whose &#8220;complete witness&#8221; is the mute figure. My in-between is a plastic way of rendering that lacuna \u2014 not of suturing it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"29:1-29:312;4853-5164\">And it remains the program of <strong>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard<\/strong>: to present that there exists something <strong>unpresentable<\/strong> (<em>The Differend<\/em>, 1983). To render the lack of the image in the fragility of its undecidedness is nothing other than this \u2014 to make visible that there is something that does not let itself be seen.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"31:1-31:44;5166-5209\">The In-Between: What Noise Makes Visible<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"33:1-33:310;5211-5520\">My most insistent question is not &#8220;which image is missing?&#8221; but &#8220;<em>what happens between two images?<\/em>&#8221; Between two shots there subsists an interval, and it is within that interval that the prohibition operates: not in the absent image taken one by one, but in the fog that separates and binds those that remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"35:1-35:527;5522-6048\">The thought of the interval has a history. <strong>Deleuze<\/strong> makes it the very site of cinematic thought: the <em>interstice<\/em>, the irrational cut, the &#8220;between-two-images&#8221; where the whole ceases to be given. <strong>Raymond Bellour<\/strong> makes of it a territory in its own right (<em>Between-the-Images<\/em>, 1990). And <strong>Aby Warburg<\/strong>, before them, named <strong>Zwischenraum<\/strong> \u2014 the in-between space \u2014 that gap between images where meaning arises, the principle of his <em>Mnemosyne Atlas<\/em> as reread by Didi-Huberman. My work is an iconology of that interval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"37:1-37:794;6050-6843\">But here theory and technique coincide <em>materially<\/em>, and this is the heart of the series. In a diffusion model, <em>noise<\/em> is not a metaphor: it is the literal substrate of the image, the Gaussian noise out of which denoising slowly brings a form to emerge. Working in ComfyUI, and with a diffusion model I train myself \u2014 <em>slerp<\/em> interpolations between two latent codes, DDIM inversion, deliberate under-capacity as an aesthetic lever \u2014 I make the &#8220;in-between&#8221; an operable object. The denoising path becomes the interval; the under-determined zone of the latent space becomes the fog between two shots. The fog of war, an epistemic undecidedness, and the model&#8217;s noise, a generative undecidedness, meet in one and the same operation. It is this double undecidedness that the series makes visible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"39:1-39:270;6845-7114\">One measures here, by contrast, what I do <em>not<\/em> do. The <strong>&#8220;operational images&#8221;<\/strong> of <strong>Harun Farocki<\/strong> are images with no human addressee, made for the machine and the target. Mine do the opposite: they render absence <em>to<\/em> the eye, they call for a gaze and for slowness.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"41:1-41:35;7116-7150\">The Distribution of the Visible<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"43:1-43:836;7152-7987\">The prohibition of the image is also a distribution: a decision about what has the right to appear. <strong>Jacques Ranci\u00e8re<\/strong> names this <strong>&#8220;distribution of the sensible&#8221;<\/strong> \u2014 the partitioning of what may be seen and said \u2014 and interrogates, in <em>The Emancipated Spectator<\/em>, the &#8220;intolerable image&#8221; that exceeds the regime of the admissible. <strong>Judith Butler<\/strong>, in <em>Frames of War<\/em> (2009), thinks the &#8220;frame&#8221; that decides which lives are worthy of being mourned, which existences may even appear: the differential distribution of <em>grievability<\/em>. When journalism is forbidden, it is this frame that closes \u2014 certain lives are withdrawn from the visible before being withdrawn from life. And <strong>Susan Sontag<\/strong>, <em>Regarding the Pain of Others<\/em> (2003), remains the ethical marker: to beware of the image that consoles, as of the one that anesthetizes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"45:1-45:46;7989-8034\">Against the Simulacrum: Rendering the Lack<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"47:1-47:262;8036-8297\">The risk must be named, because it will be raised against me. Formally, to generate the image of an unphotographed event <em>resembles<\/em> the fabrication of atrocity imagery that contemporary criticism denounces. The difference is everything \u2014 and it is theorizable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"49:1-49:536;8299-8834\">My image does not counterfeit a presence: it indexes an absence. Where synthetic propaganda imagery produces a false &#8220;that-has-been,&#8221; a simulacrum that passes for proof, <em>Impossible Archive<\/em> inscribes the lack <em>within<\/em> the image. The undecidedness, the blur, the noise are not a style there but an <strong>epistemic operator<\/strong>: they declare the image&#8217;s non-probative status, they prevent it from passing itself off as a document. This is the exact plastic translation of Didi-Huberman&#8217;s &#8220;in spite of all&#8221; and of the Lyotardian unpresentable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"51:1-51:556;8836-9391\">This is why I also stand at the opposite pole from counter-forensics. <strong>Forensic Architecture<\/strong> and <strong>Eyal Weizman<\/strong><em>reconstruct<\/em> the suppressed event from material traces: an evidentiary approach, which restores its proof to the real. I do the inverse. I do not reconstitute what took place; I figure what <em>could<\/em> have taken place, precisely because it cannot be known. Where forensics aims at detectability, I aim at the undecidable. The series does not substitute simulation for the real: it holds the gap open, and makes of that gap its very subject.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold\" data-sourcepos=\"53:1-53:25;9393-9417\">An Allogenetic Memory<\/h2>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"55:1-55:683;9419-10101\">It is within my own conceptual apparatus that the series finds its place. <em>Impossible Archive<\/em> is the negative of <em>Completion (the real will be its double)<\/em>, in which I completed historical photographs: there I extended an existing image, here I generate the image of an event never captured. What I call <strong>pararealism<\/strong> \u2014 a real alongside the real, and not against it \u2014 attains here its purest case; <strong>allogenetic memory<\/strong> is no longer only the memory of what the model produces <em>from elsewhere<\/em>, it becomes the archive of eventual possibles never actualized; and <strong>achronic remanence<\/strong> becomes the persistence of a non-event, an image that returns without ever having taken place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"57:1-57:227;10103-10329\">The latent space, henceforth, is not a storehouse of the &#8220;that-has-been&#8221;: it is the archive of a &#8220;that-could-have-been.&#8221; An <em>ontology without ontology<\/em>, applied no longer to latent geometry in general, but to the event itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" data-sourcepos=\"59:1-59:304;10331-10634\">The series begun with the Ukrainian conflict finds here its second station. From one war to the next, what I construct is not a chronicle but an iconology of the interval \u2014 a way of holding, in the face of the prohibition of the image, not the consolation of a false testimony, but fidelity to the lack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza6-1536x774.jpg 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href=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1017\" src=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza18-copie-1536x924.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gaza19-copie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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parviennent par exc\u00e8s d&#8217;images et d&#8217;autres par leur d\u00e9faut. Le conflit qui oppose Isra\u00ebl au Hamas appartient, en grande partie, \u00e0 la seconde cat\u00e9gorie. Depuis octobre 2023, l&#8217;acc\u00e8s ind\u00e9pendant des journalistes \u00e0 la bande [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,184,135,163,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-imagination-artificielle","category-intelligence-artificielle","category-photographie","category-une"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaz.org\/xtrm-art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}