ENSP 1994 Arno Gisinger has developed a pluridisciplinary approach to his art over the last fifteen years, linking photography and historiography. After studies in history and German philology at Innsbruck, he completed postgraduate work at ENSP in 1994. These joint studies led him to work on the links between memory, history, and photographic representations. Inspired by German thought of the inter-war period and the methods of New History, his works challenge us to a contemporary re-reading of grounded and groundless memory. His work tests visual representations of the past through their different forms of transmission: witnesses, objects, and places. The function of archives, the status of documents, the words of witnesses are central to his concerns. Arno Gisinger was artist-in-residence in London in 1995-1996, in Paris in 2004, and in Vietnam in 2007. He teaches at the University of Paris 8, and at the École Supérieure d’Art, Lorraine. Among his several publications are Konstellation Benjamin, Imagined Wars and Unsichtbare Stadt (Invisible City). He exhibits regularly and is currently preparing a retrospective for 2012-2013 with four exhibition venues in Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland.