Bunker Archeology

A suite of drawings of the concrete bunkers of the Atlantic Wall — the chain of German fortifications strung along the coast of occupied France during the Second World War. The title borrows from Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archéologie, his study of these monoliths as the relics of a war that has already receded into the ground: military architecture surveyed not as strategy but as archaeology — half-buried, obsolete, and still standing. Segard renders them in charcoal, ink wash and white chalk on aged paper, where the stained and yellowed sheet reads as excavated earth and the bunkers surface from it like fossils. Stripped of their function, the forms hover between monument and ruin — mass without purpose, built to watch a sea that no longer holds a threat. The series closes on Blue Mountain, the fortification dissolving into landscape until the distinction between the two collapses.