Eliot Nasrallah: Les Yeux Fermés
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Keyword: 21st century, performative photography, Greece, absence, healing, French-Lebanese artist
Size: 170 x 218 mm Pages: 320 Format: softcover Edition: 400 copies Language: English Illustration: 133 mostly in b/w Text: Eliot Nasrallah Book design: Eliot Nasrallah. Janne Riikonen Printing: Tallin Book Printers Publisher: Kult Books Pub Year: 2024 Weight: 540 ISBN 13: 9789198760736Description
Article no.: 9789198760736
This book explores healing processes through performative photography. The project documents a spiritual journey where several protagonists embrace various natural environments to engage physically in a quest of self-reconstruction.
From the publisher:
Les yeux fermés explores how the human body can engage in a therapeutic healing process, as well as the role of performative photography in this journey. The few anonymous protagonists of the book are followed on a quest through a changing Mediterranean landscape, interacting with their surroundings. By engaging in rituals and performative actions, the body taps into external energies to fortify its inner strength. The journey culminates in Greece's Stefanos volcano, symbolising a new boundary to cross. The active volcano represents both danger and a lost paternal figure. Eliot Nasrallah, a French-Lebanese artist based in Paris, initiated the project after experiencing the loss of a place of personal significance, as a result of the loss of a loved one. The deliberately underexposed photographs create a visual language connected to broad themes of memory, absence and loss.
From the publisher:
Les yeux fermés explores how the human body can engage in a therapeutic healing process, as well as the role of performative photography in this journey. The few anonymous protagonists of the book are followed on a quest through a changing Mediterranean landscape, interacting with their surroundings. By engaging in rituals and performative actions, the body taps into external energies to fortify its inner strength. The journey culminates in Greece's Stefanos volcano, symbolising a new boundary to cross. The active volcano represents both danger and a lost paternal figure. Eliot Nasrallah, a French-Lebanese artist based in Paris, initiated the project after experiencing the loss of a place of personal significance, as a result of the loss of a loved one. The deliberately underexposed photographs create a visual language connected to broad themes of memory, absence and loss.