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'It all started with a letter to my father. It had been about ten years since his death, and I suddenly felt like writing to him about the silence, his silence, the silence between us. It started in 2020, as a necessity. The silence, then, was striking. It resonated with other erased voices, other voids, other emotions. I thought I would not be able to stop. Neither diary, nor essay, nor short story, Blackout is a weaving, a braid made of these lines of silence, and tells, in fragments, the story of a dispossession, of an entry into darkness.' - Yann Chateigne Tytelman

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‘A moving account of a son’s search for his father’s ghost, as well as a riveting enquiry into the notions of silence and absence in music, literature and visual art. Extraordinary.’ – Jude Cook ‘Blackout offers an extended reflection on living within silence and emptiness, but through the accumulation of seemingly disconnected stories something else emerges: the pangs of absence enfolded one after another – but absence is always presence, silence is a teeming noise... Was the collective amnesia that followed our recent, yet somehow erased, enforced isolation necessary to forgetting a deeper revelation? For a moment, another kind of society presented itself, a society of gorgeous nothings given eyes to see in the dark.’ – David Toop

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Yann Chateigne Tytelman is an author and art curator living in Brussels. He has been curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels, head of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD - Geneva, and chief curator at CAPC in Bordeaux, among other positions. He is a guest lecturer in the Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Gent. In 2023, he co-founded Celador, an art space run by a reading group collective, in Brussels.

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