“Personal documents have always been archived everywhere in the world, whether on purpose or by chance. Diaries, accounting books, correspondences, notes, notebooks, bulletins,… these are all sources that are not in the spotlight, but which bear the trace of a voice. These are the words of non-famous people, ordinary or original folks, whose ‘I’ is also a ‘we’. Quietly, their voices intersect our memories and my work unfolds underneath them all, not to make them speak, but to try and listen to them.”
From book to book, project to project, Karelle Ménine stands with classified, locked away, unheard or unread voices, which are the basis of a reflection as much as poetic creation.