Missing me / Memories / Childhood / Reunion Island

In the center of each double page there is an absence. A circle cut out of cardboard is the anchor point of a memory: the almighty sun, the balloons exchanged on the black sand, the coconut ready to fall. These round shapes refer to a specific childhood, that of the author, spent on the island where she grew up, Reunion. But beyond the island, the winning marbles, the lollipops exchanged at recess, the cherries on the cake belong to the territory of a universal childhood that Anne-Margot Ramstein revisits here. A childhood that lives in each of us and which is combined in the present as well as the past.