Les yeux fermés
Eliot Nasrallah
Kult Books
English
Softcover
320 pages
180 x 220 mm
2024
ISBN 9789198760767
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.
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About the Artist
Eliot Nasrallah is a French-Lebanese artist based in Paris. He has been leading research regarding the process of appearance and disappearance of images in relation to the fragility of territories in the Mediterranean basin. Going between analogue and digital techniques, his practice encompasses various reproduction means through experimentation with the photographic medium. From alternative printing methods, bookish objects, field recordings to video installations, his works intends to reveal the plastic and narrative possibilities regarding the representations of memories. If the series of images unfolds into a form of mysticism and abstraction, the gesture of association that activates them seems to participate to the build-up of a memory in perpetual construction. From personal archive to the document-image, his work questions the capacity of images to testify the story of their own making in the face of the impermanence of certain contexts. His project «La dernière visite» has been awarded by a collaboration between Passepartout and Yogurt Magazine. In 2021, his book «Août 2020, Cher Journal,» was nominated for the Kassel Dummy Book Award. He teaches photographic and editorial practices at the Ecole Duperré (Paris, France).
https://www.eliotnasrallah.com
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About the Publisher
Kult Books is an independent publishing project for photography and other lens-based visual arts founded by Janne Riikonen in Stockholm, Sweden. Kult Books publishes monographs and artist books that embrace a personal artistic vision and visual language. The publications are created in close collaboration with the artists, the physical form designed to support the concept of the work.
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