Jérôme Bouchez’s contribution to the Museum of Fragmentation is a kind of map of fragments, traces, documents, images, and sketches of works spanning over 15 years, condensed into an installation within a space usually reserved for solitude. This space is transformed into a temple of fleeting flashes of everyday life, of horror and pleasure, politics and intimacy, unfinished thoughts, torn images, and constructs — a de-functionalized object-space that becomes a broken yet compact and self-sustaining sample of fragmented reality in time and its inevitable transience.
In this surgical intervention into impressions and the horrors of the everyday, the cagoule — the mask — is both a shield and a defense against the visibility of identity, but also a protective membrane, a skin preserving one’s own thought-images and their distinctiveness, not shared with anyone.
The portraits encagoulés (in collaboration with artist Anna Kuznetsova) conceal the face while simultaneously creating an invisible, hidden identity — from lace to real rabbit fur (in collaboration with artist Victor Feres).
The visual and experiential path through this in-situ installation was conceived for the Museum of Fragmentation 2025 by Milan Atanasković..