The invasion of Normandy has been kept alive as a romanticized tale. As long as the event lives on so do its soldiers; they are only dead when they are forgotten, when is no rite left to sustain their memory. It is repetition of the ritual that immortalizes them. The more tourists know of the events, the more there is for them to see here. This knowledge depends on how important people of the older generation consider it to keep warm the memory of those events. Now the old soldiers have the opportunity to spend time on the coast. They have a view of the horizon where they themselves loomed into view some fifty years ago. They can give their account of events through images or the written word. The wall-texts reveal their innermost thoughts. The tourists find themselves in the counter-space of the old soldiers, there is no meeting between the two groups. Once the old soldiers have died, the project will become a necropolis, an abandoned city of the dead. The spirit of its inhabitants is held captive by a palpable absence - as a necrology, an obituary of those who perished there.

Place of education: Tilburg
Tutor: Jacob van Rijs
Specialization: architecture.