“At any moment, in any life, everything can be crushed, destroyed, made to disappear. History, as well as our individual stories, mercilessly confirm this truth over and over again. How can we explore, how recount and how represent this fragility? What else should we do, now, in the midst of this cosmic fragility? The struggle is hopeless in many ways, yet we have to continue to move forward at any cost.” This brief insight by the French artists Anne and Patrick Poirier perfectly sums up the aesthetic and the basis of their research: study and analysis of the memory of past civilizations, as a metaphor for the transience and fragility of human beings and societies.