In the series “Les Archives de la Planète”, Douglas Mandry explores the historical archives of the Albert Kahn Museum (Paris) through a visual reinterpretation, challenging colonial and universalist perspectives. Douglas Mandry transforms a few selected visual documents from the vast archives, intended to document the world in colour, through lithography printing and painting, thereby altering their materiality in order to disrupt their documentary authority. His process embraces decay, abstraction, and ambiguity, exposing the fragility of archives and the landscapes they depict.