Le Souffle (edt of 7)

Juan Manuel Abellán
Le Souffle (edt of 7)

Photographs: Juan Manuel Abellán

Publisher: Self-published

80 pages

Year: 2022

Price: 2000 €

Comments: Book and box made by hand with gilded text. Limited edition of seven(5+2AP) numbered and signed with 2 numbered and signed prints. Inkjet printing on Awagami KOZO paper. Hardcover, opens into triptypque including a leaflet of 80 pages (pages doubled and folded, japanese binding), recto-verso leporello and a double-layered, superimposed image. Book: 15 x 21 cm, box: 17 x 23.3 cm. 67 pages with four 11 x 7.3 cm, prints placed between the pages.

"Le Souffle" materializes a search for the representation of absense and the role of memory during the process of grief, through a dialogue between danced performance and photography. In using the notion of breath, a notion integral to dance, the artist explores the potential of the photographic medium as a non-mimetic tool to represent the living.