Palimpsest – Philippe Braquenier

Natural and digital milieus merge and become rather contiguous in Philippe Braquenier’s work. His interest in information depots expands from the question of their relationship to landscape and urban infrastructures, to what is required to sustain the archives of human history. ‘Palimpsest’ arises from our rapidly progressing technological landscape. Braquenier’s images portray the infrastructures of information repositories: libraries, repositories, data centres, and natural and built environments that conceal a strong, although not always obvious, archival reference.