La valise égyptienne by Noha Mokhtar & Lucas Uhlman documents a collection of ceramic objects from Egypt. These carry lived or invented stories, just like souvenirs brought back from travels. Oscillating between fiction and non-fiction, the book plays with different forms of representation, addressing questions around the construction of identity and the materialization of memory, truth and falsification, and the existence of things between worlds. La valise égyptienne is in two parts: first the text (a collection of short stories), and second a 5-metre-long leporello with the photographs of the ceramic objects, taken by the Ethnographic Museum in Geneva.

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