Le Temps des cerises (The Time of Cherries). Noir. The Bloody Week, by Lia and Paolo Aldi. Mixed media with negative reproduction of period photographs by Disdéri, beeswax and lampblack on wooden board. Dimensions 40 x 40 x 2.5 cm. Technique used: photographic encaustic and wax casting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. as were the terrible days of the Bloody Week, in May 1871 in Paris, during which between 15,000 and 30,000 people were massacred in a Paris that, with its experience of the Commune, had fought for autonomy, work, democracy, and dignity.
