Fragments d’Histoires Futures

Fragments d’Histoires Futures moves through Pripyat, Ukraine, tracing the entanglement of collapsing Soviet architecture, advancing vegetation, and the slow drift of tourists moving through spaces no longer built for them. Buildings once intended to project ideological certainty now coexist with emergent ecologies that press through windows, stairwells, and facades, reshaping the site according to their own rhythms and agency.

Within this landscape, human presence appears intermittent and almost incidental—figures wandering through a zone shaped by forces larger and older than them. An ominous soundtrack deepens the sense of temporal dislocation, suggesting a place where histories erode and reorganize simultaneously.

The title offers a quiet nod to Gabriel Tarde’s Fragment d’Histoire Future, a speculative text in which worlds reassemble themselves after environmental upheaval. Here, too, the future feels embedded within the present ruin: a landscape where entropy, regrowth, and spectatorship converge, and where meaning emerges through the shifting interplay of matter, memory, and time.