Seven contemporary artists address the phenomenon of the mysterious return of the past. The extensive image section documents the works of Anna Gaskell, Isabell Heimerdinger, Constantin Luser, Jan Mancuska, Martina Steckholzer, David Thorpe, and Clemens von Wedemeyer. The theoretical contributions in the publication reference Henri Bergson's historically unique text "The Memory of the Present and the False Recollection," which is printed in both the original French and German translation. In this context, the significance of déjà vu for art and literary history is particularly discussed, as well as the parallels that arise from a comparative examination of déjà vu with image-producing media.