Eliot Nasrallah, Les Yeux Fermés

Les Yeux Fermés

Eliot Nasrallah

Publisher
Kult Books
Year
2024
ISBN
978-91-987607-3-6
Specifications
Thread sewn softcover with a dustjacket
17 x 21.8 cm
320 pages
133 photographs and video stills
Offset printing
First edition of 400 copies
Designed by Eliot Nasrallah and Janne Riikonen

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, 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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