Neo-Archéologia #10

The vacant lots are like vestiges, they constitute our contemporary archeology, the transition between two temporalities, between two civilisational existences. What remains of our forgetfulness? Everyday objects, decrepit wallpaper, steel rods rising from cinder- block, as many clues, spectrums, tracks to reconstruct. The calm, hovering, mysterious, virgin of all presence. This is to highlight the «supernaturation» of these remains. Faced with the finds of a distant past, the Romans adopted a singular attitude. As P. Jockey evokes, in his book, archeology: «They ignored what were these objects - that is, objects created by the hand of man - rather lending them a over-natural origin.» This is the case, for example, of «fulmini stones» or «thunder stones», simple tools or weapons of the Stone Age which for the Roman emperor Galba, became an omen for his destiny as emperor. What power can we give to the artefacts around us? The «supernaturalistaion» also inhabits the adoration of relics, bones, and other remains. Man needs to give meaning to his origins.