Chloé Siganos | Archaeology of Tenderness

Chloé Siganos proposes a living installation titled “Archaeology of Tenderness”, which functions almost as a manifesto. It can be conceived as an artistic, philosophical, or poetic method: a search for traces of tenderness in the ruins of the world, an exploration of the invisible layers of human gestures – care, fragility, transmission, attachment – that official history fails to preserve. Just as an archaeologist digs into the earth, this project into emotional memories, minor acts, forgotten relationships, silent childhoods, and the lingering traces of care. This is not the history of the victors. It is the history of the gestures that prevented collapse.

The archaeology of tenderness asserts that violence leaves monuments, but tenderness leaves traces. And these traces must be found, named, and exposed. It transforms tenderness into a critical tool, an act of resistance, a form of collective memory.