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...