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Location
Color
Orientation
Subject
Style
Unknown
Black & White, Metallic Silver
Landscape
Bank Vault, Lockers, Keys, Memory
Minimalist, Conceptual, Documentary

The Unlocked Archive

Price Photo Incl. 70x100 cm on 320g Paper Print - Excl. Shipping Cost

70127

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The Unlocked Archive — Inside a former bank vault, rows of gleaming metal safe deposit boxes stretch across the frame in a hypnotic grid. Each drawer is numbered, identical, and perfectly engineered—yet many stand ajar, keys still in place, revealing an unsettling openness in a space once defined by secrecy.

Photographed in stark black and white, Olivier Ceulemans turns this forgotten financial archive into a portrait of vulnerability. What was once secure is now exposed. The open doors evoke absence and memory—what was taken, what was lost, what was never claimed. It’s a haunting metaphor for value, privacy, and the silent traces we leave behind.

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