The Coming Previously series addresses the evolution of the city through the disappearance of a place, its transformation and the resurgence of older traces thanks to an archaeological excavation campaign in Tours (37).

Built according to the principle of the palindrome, this series unfolds the cyclical story of a piece of territory in the process of renewal, where coexist the ruins of an eleventh-century abbey and burials from the second half of the nineteenth century, followed by the demolition of contemporary military barracks and the construction of a future eco-district. Here photography prefigures the obsolescence of these new forms and their announced disappearance, their burial and their exhumation when, once again, the time comes to superimpose an additional layer on the surface of a city in perpetual sedimentation.

The site – of excavations or construction – thus becomes the theatre of an incompletion, of a fragmentation of materials and of the memory of places, where the meeting of archaeology and urban planning, of vestige and architectural projection, is played out.