On n'a pas retrouvé l'oiseau. Dominique Briquel comme dans le monde arabo-musulman

comme dans le monde arabo-musulman

By reflecting a life journey through the works that have marked it

From miniature harpoons of prehistory to today's heroes

both at the scale of the site (diachronic occupation of the space) and that of the tomb (architecture

to work with them

On n'a pas retrouvé l'oiseau. Dominique Briquel comme dans le monde arabo-musulmanUrbex photographs and the words of a poet pay homage to the lives erased in the rusty shadow of the steel monsters of the industrial basins of Wallonia and Northern France, to these tools that were the pride of the workers' know how. A story to be passed on, its grandeur and its decay, is the underlying theme of the book.