Eugénie Kuffler

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

More than 150 years after the destruction of the Tuileries Palace, how can we rediscover the materiality of the 1871 Paris Commune and its revolutionary fire ? Perhaps by exploring images of its ruins and by discussing with today’s militants...