Mémoires
fractales

Mémoires fractales is a mother-son collaboration that bridges oral tradition and generative AI. The work begins with spoken accounts: memories transmitted verbally across generations, stories that have no photographic record, no archive, no written trace. They exist only as they are told, reshaping themselves with each telling, fractal in their repetition and variation.

These oral accounts are fed into generative AI models, which produce images that are neither illustrations nor reconstructions. They are visual echoes of spoken memory: imprecise, dreamlike, carrying the texture of words translated into light. The generated images are then printed on traditional Antemoro paper from Madagascar, a handmade bark paper used for centuries to preserve sacred texts. The collision between the most ancient medium and the most contemporary technology produces objects that belong to neither world entirely.

The video installation extends this dialogue into time and space, creating an environment where spoken word, generated image, and material presence coexist. The viewer enters a space where memory is simultaneously ancient and synthetic, personal and algorithmic, fragile and endlessly reproducible.