"NPAI": when the lost letters of the Post office come back to life
Audio 29:00
Photo taken from the exhibition "The ordinary letters", at the National Archives, in Paris.
© Marc Obin
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
There is a service within the Post Office that processes letters that could never be sent because they were poorly addressed, because they were written to the deceased, to people or to places that do not exist.
Letters of love, friendship, family secrets, inner turmoil, hopes and questions.
Adrianna Wallis, artist, has been collecting these letters since 2016 to turn them into artistic works: exhibitions, readings, musical improvisations.
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Guest: Adrianna Wallis
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artist.
At the origin of the exhibition
The ordinary letters
at the National Archives Museum, Paris.
And Lucie Bouteloup's column “La puce à l'oreille”
to be found every week on the
RFI Savoirs website.
Today, the expression "skin of grief".
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