November 2, 2025
By Eliane Patriarca THE Subscribers
The more an event is mentioned, the more likely it is to be transformed, or even… reinvented. Memory is so malleable that it's possible to introduce entirely fabricated recollections. This can call into question the reliability of eyewitness accounts.
Excerpt from the series "Ectoplasms", by the visual artist Coco Fronsac (ink on anonymous color photograph, 1992).
COCO FRONSAC/VOZ IMAGE
This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°223 dated October/December 2025.
Proud of your memory, you cherish and polish your recollections: from your grandmother's savarin mold to the bright red of your first bicycle, to meeting your sweetheart, they mark the milestones of your life. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but your memory, just like mine, is fallible and full of false memories.
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