Behind That Locked Door

Behind That Locked Door

The essay explores the space of the archives through a collection of photographs taken within Milanese archives in the autumn of 2024. The collateral text further elaborates on the contradictory nature of these spaces, both repositories of memory and instruments of control. The research invites us t...

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Autor principal: Balma, Filippo Lorenzo
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Ardeth 2025
Matèries:
archive
hoarding
accumulation
surveillance
archivio
accaparramento
accumulo
sorveglianza
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ardeth_4909 en https://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/4909 2025-12-24T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/15eyb https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Behind That Locked Door Ardeth Rosenberg & Sellier info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2611-934X info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2532-6457 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ardeth Balma, Filippo Lorenzo archive hoarding accumulation surveillance archivio accaparramento accumulo sorveglianza The essay explores the space of the archives through a collection of photographs taken within Milanese archives in the autumn of 2024. The collateral text further elaborates on the contradictory nature of these spaces, both repositories of memory and instruments of control. The research invites us to consider how archives attempt to contain the flow of time, bridging past and future while compressing entropy within their ordered settings. As we stroll by shelves and file cabinets, we notice an obsessive impulse to accumulate and control information – an echo of our data-driven society.Case studies selected are meant to represent archival architecture across various fields and institutions. Photographs preferably adopt a central perspective to ease comparison among images and with the human scale, while drawings deconstruct the device character of the archive. Furthermore, archivists’ testimonies serve as the primary reference for insights into these spaces where the past is preserved, the present controlled, and the future designed.
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topic archive
hoarding
accumulation
surveillance
archivio
accaparramento
accumulo
sorveglianza
spellingShingle archive
hoarding
accumulation
surveillance
archivio
accaparramento
accumulo
sorveglianza
Balma, Filippo Lorenzo
Behind That Locked Door
description The essay explores the space of the archives through a collection of photographs taken within Milanese archives in the autumn of 2024. The collateral text further elaborates on the contradictory nature of these spaces, both repositories of memory and instruments of control. The research invites us to consider how archives attempt to contain the flow of time, bridging past and future while compressing entropy within their ordered settings. As we stroll by shelves and file cabinets, we notice an obsessive impulse to accumulate and control information – an echo of our data-driven society.Case studies selected are meant to represent archival architecture across various fields and institutions. Photographs preferably adopt a central perspective to ease comparison among images and with the human scale, while drawings deconstruct the device character of the archive. Furthermore, archivists’ testimonies serve as the primary reference for insights into these spaces where the past is preserved, the present controlled, and the future designed.
author Balma, Filippo Lorenzo
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title Behind That Locked Door
title_short Behind That Locked Door
title_full Behind That Locked Door
title_fullStr Behind That Locked Door
title_full_unstemmed Behind That Locked Door
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