In the CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS MONOGRAPHS series. A study of the French artist, Boltanski, who became known in the 1980's. His works often combine found photographs, articles of clothing and storage media, lit by candles or flickering electric lights, creating magical spaces evoking little theatres and churches.
Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there.
Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow.