When T-Shirts Become Archives

Some archives are not built at once, but slowly assembled through years of looking, collecting, and remembering. Before culture became fully digitised, memory often lived in magazines, photographs, mixtapes and personal objects — fragments that carried entire worlds within them.

Journalist, editor and curator Eglée de Bure opens her personal archive in Roots Picnic Music Festival, Philadelphia — June 4, 2016. The Day After Muhammad Ali’s Passing, a new zine built around photographs taken at the Roots Picnic Festival in Philadelphia in 2016. Focused on the vintage T-shirts worn by festival-goers — from rap history to sports icons and cinema references — the work traces how cultural symbols circulate and reshape collective memory across generations.

For this launch at Le Grand Jeu, Eglée de Bure presents the first chapter of an ongoing archival project, moving between photography, memory and cultural storytelling.

📖 Zine Launch & Signing with Eglée de Bure
🗓 Thursday, June 18  | 🕓 From 6 PM
📍 Le Grand Jeu, 15 passage de Ménilmontant, Paris 11