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Chronicle of Shifting Times

Through this series, Mégane Likin draws upon the fragmented story of a family who travelled through Japan and the United States during the 1960s. Discovered within a box found at a flea market, this collection of photographs, postcards, and memorabilia becomes the starting point for a personal and imaginary journey that unfolds through evanescent landscapes.

Although rooted in real archives, the works do not seek to faithfully reconstruct a history. Instead, they gradually move away from it to explore the mechanisms of memory, recollection, and projection. These fragments of life become the material for an open-ended narrative, where images continuously drift between reality and fiction.

Created on tracing paper, the works make use of transparency and layering to bring forth landscapes whose contours remain uncertain. The material itself acts as a veil, revealing as much as it conceals, allowing glimpses of a world of which only traces remain.

Through these compositions, Mégane Likin approaches the landscape as a sensitive space capable of holding emotions, memories, and the stories projected onto it. The scenes depicted often seem to emerge from memory itself, like fleeting images glimpsed through the window of a train and slowly transformed by time.

Presented in small formats, these landscapes form fragments of an imagined territory. Together, they create an experience that is both visual and contemplative, where the viewer's gaze constantly shifts between what once was, what has been invented, and what remains beyond reach.

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