What can an environment remember? How might a ruin in the remote Azores archipelago serve as an entry point to the destructive expanses of French nuclearization, from the Algerian Sahara to the atolls of the Pacific?

In 1964, a military observatory was erected in Flores island to survey the French missile testing across the Atlantic. The missiles surveyed through this lens were an inseparable container to the nuclear warheads deployed in the Pacific destructive tests. On a continuum of signals, Flores’ observatory acted as more than a witness. 

Across the media ecologies of the facility, the networked relations of nuclear testing, and the environmental remnants of the occupation in the Azorean island, this aesthetico-political experiment attempts to resist the violent erasure perpetrated under French nuclearization.