Enchanting views

"Modern man's pleasure / To travel.
Modern man's desire / To know.
Modern man's interest / To make the most of his free time".

Ioana Alexe: To what extent do you consider that the archives currently available, including documents, photographs and oral testimonies, provide a solid basis for a complex and nuanced understanding of the socialist period in Romania? What gaps do you identify in these archives and how could they be filled to provide a more complete picture?
Alina Șerban: The archives per se are neither limitative nor exhaustive. For a better orientation in this debate that has arisen (and still persists) around archives, it is worth re-reading, for example, Hal Foster's article, Archives of Modern Art, published in 2002. There are some important pointers there that can broaden the way we think about working with archives (institutional or private) and survey the mass of materials contained (inventoried or not), acco