A deliberately flawed physical keyboard, Disparition[s] operates as a literary device for conceptual writing. The work directly references Oulipian writer Georges Perec’s most famous novel, while invoking the postcolonial, the feminine, and the psychoanalytic Other—the e/eux (them)—by rendering their absence conspicuous.

The piece was presented as part of the exhibition Bar CodeX in the macBAR at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon. There, it was paired with a wall text, “Georges_Perec is typing…”, inviting us to imagine what he might have written about contemporary textual realities on a keyboard his own constraints helped bring into being.