Popular objects often emerge from a simple human concern: nothing lasts forever. A fire goes out. A celebration comes to an end. A face grows older. Someone’s presence is missed. Yet, across cultures and throughout history, people have found ways to hold on to what slips away. They have created substitutes: effigies, imprints, amulets, ex-votos, and images. Not to stop time, but to give things another way of enduring. The photographs presented at Les Drapiers, in dialogue with objects from the collections of the Musée de la Vie wallonne brought together in Au-dessus du sans fond, seem to stem from this same impulse. They all maintain a complex relationship with disappearance. Rather than capturing what is, they record what is in the process of changing. This exhibition is presented as part of BIP 2026.