This interest has led her to make a new piece of work which started during her trip to the Spanish island and has developed here in the form of an installation that mixes text and image – notations of a thought process in construction.
Since 1999, Charlotte Moth has compiled a collection of photographs called the Travelogue. This title evokes the hybrid and open nature of this undertaking, as much as its itinerant approach and potential cinematographic activation. The Travelogue includes architecture, landscape and decorative elements, spaces and details the obsolescence of which are at times pronounced, at others latent. Fragmentary in nature, this archive remains open in its possible extensions and also in its usage. It is constantly revisited by the artist for exhibition and also offered for a dialogue with third parties. Invited by the Museum to make a site specific project, Moth was inspired byRaoul Hausmann’s time in Ibiza in the 1930s and has enriched the Travelogue with new images taken on the Spanish island this winter. These photographs are recombined with older images and laid out following a conversation with Alice Peinado, an anthropologist specialised in questions of migration and notions of identity and citizenship. Insularity, habitat, the appearance of forms and their transformation are themes that unfold on a series of tables. Rather like islands themselves, these platforms allow the construction of images in space set against texts which have been edited and recomposed by the artist after her discussion with Alice Peinado. This is what she herself calls “noting thoughts”. Based on the relation between images and texts and their reciprocal activating, this installation further develops research already present in The Absent Forms – another work by Moth purchased by the Museum last year.


With the support of Fluxus, a franco-english fund for contemporary art.