by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

translated from the French by Clem Clement

Publication date: October 2025

“It all started with a letter to my father. It had been about ten years since his death, and I suddenly felt like writing to him about the silence, his silence, the silence between us. It started in 2020, as a necessity. The silence, then, was striking. It resonated with other erased voices, other voids, other emotions. I thought I would not be able to stop. Neither diary, nor essay, nor short story, Blackout is a weaving, a braid made of these lines of silence, and tells, in fragments, the story of a dispossession, of an entry into darkness.”

— Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Yann Chateigné Tytelman is an author and art curator, living in Brussels. He has been curator at the KANAL-Centre Pompidou Brussels, artistic advisor at MORPHO Antwerp, and head of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Geneva, among other positions. He recently organised the 2023 exhibition Four Sisters at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. He is co-editor of Almanac Ecart: A collective archive, 1969-2019.

Paperback original
48 pages, 180 × 120 mm
ISBN 978-1-0683001-5-8