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1 A book describes works that the author has conceived but not brought into being 2 The world is drawn from memory There are missing countries, altered borders 3 Proust’s head is drawn on a page of In Search of Lost Time The words tracing out the contour of his face form a grammatically correct sentence 4 Man-sized aluminium mannequins are dropped at different heights from a crane Metamorphosed by folds, they adopt the pose to which they are constrained by their new morphology 5 An exhibit displays pieces unalike in spirit, style, and technique, but with the same origin: their author saw them while dreaming 6 Entomological boxes contain invitation cards to exhibitions that didn’t take place The reasons for their cancellation are written below the cards The boxes are hung on the walls like a collection of insects 7 A woman’s voice describes the shapes she sees in the static snow on the television screen after the end of broadcasts Geometric forms, windmills, ghosts The video is shown on a monitor posed on a low table at the foot of a divan couch The visitor lies down and compares what he sees to what he hears 8 Museum of Nobodies Instead of the usual celebrities, a wax museum displays unknown characters Chosen at random from the telephone book, the models are representative of neither an epoch, nor a region, nor a profession At its inauguration, the museum shows thirty statues Two new models are added to the museum’s collection each year: as the years go by, an evolving, sculptural, and hyperrealist memory of society emerges 9 Every year in January, a painting is made from memory of the same photograph, which represents a square in Bangkok during a time of affluence Neither the model image, nor the preceding paintings are looked at After ten years the paintings are revealed and exhibited alongside one another 10 A film scene is shown backwards to actors so they can learn to act it in reverse Once they succeed, they are filmed anew The new scene, in turn projected backwards,