Les Yeux Fermés
Les Yeux Fermés
Les Yeux Fermés
Les Yeux Fermés
Les Yeux Fermés

Eliot Nasrallah

KULT Books (Sweden)

Les Yeux Fermés

35,00 €

2024

Format 17x21,8

320 pages

English

978-91-987607-3-6

Présentation

Les yeux fermés (Eyes Closed) is a photographic, video and sound research project where several protagonists will invest various natural environments to engage bodily in a quest for self-reconstruction.

A spiritual journey taking place in different parts of the Mediterranean basin, and ending later in the crater of a still active volcano in Greece.

The video work that closes the photographic series reveals a sequence in which the body is this time guided by the volcano through a mystical and almost meditative walk.

A meeting between two bodies about the mysterious phenomenon of resilience, in which the volcano, shown here as both figure and danger, is approached as a metaphor for a lost paternal presence. An attempt to explore how the body can become involved in a therapeutic healing process, but also, at the role played by photography when a performative dimension is used to construct images.

Intentionally darkened, the photographs ask us about our difficulty in determining their birth or disappearance...