Fazal Sheikh – Ether
88 Seiten, 21 x 32 cm , 668 g.
Fazal Sheikh – Ether
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The pictures in Ether, Sheikh’s first book in colour, were made as a way to honour the experience of death and to try to comprehend its significance.

Benares (Varanasi) is one of India’s sacred cities, where many Hindus come to die in the belief that they will find salvation. As he walked its streets by night, Sheikh observed sleeping figures, shrouded in blankets, lost to an oblivion that seemed, in that holy city, to offer a simulacrum of death.

In watching these ambiguous figures, which hover in the imagination between a dream state, sleep and death, Sheikh recalled his own experience with his dying father and their passage together through his father’s final days. He remembered it as an invaluable period of emotional connection with the body and soul of the person he knew and loved, a connection that reached back to his paternal ancestors, who had travelled south from northern India a century before.

To lose oneself in sleep is to abandon the senses and leave the way open to a dream state in which mind and body separate. Just as, in death, the soul leaves the physical body behind and takes to the air, becoming ether.
VerlagSteidl
Jahr
EinbandartLeinen
SpracheEnglisch
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ISBN978-3-86930-653-7
Abbildungenmit zahlr. Abb
Artikel IDart-13095

 

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