Antebellum South: this name refer to the Deep South of the United States, tradition kept the original meaning , if not reactionary: the refusal of modernity.
When I moved there in 1972, and throughout the following years, during which, I mostly traveled alone, this aspiration of the Old South to erase the present era fascinated me. I planted there with enjoyment and stubbornness all my fantasies: sensual, musical, literary, and photographical.
Beyond the freezing of words, often offensive, and their turpitude, did I become a “southerner”? I always ran after the coattails of time, seizing every opportunity to erase it, to forget to what depths it precipitates us. Antebellum, like so many haunted areas.
Gilles Mora, Antebellum
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