DESIDEREA NUNCIA - Smith, Diplomats & Lucien Raphmaj
Desiderea Nuncia (The Messenger of Desideration) brings together SMITH's photographs, Lucien Raphmaj's texts and Diplomates' micro-architecture plans, as several types of knowledge and several ways of materializing the phenomena of desideration.
This mysterious term designates the feeling of an indeterminate lack, resolutely linked to the stars. When sailors of yore, lost at sea on stormy nights, no longer had the stars to guide them, de-sideration (the lack of stars, and the wish for their return) was a reality for them. Our de-sideration announces itself as the melancholy symptom of the loss of the starry sky (de-sidera), and also promises itself as a desire (desiderium): desire in the face of the disaster of a darkened sensitive world and an atrophied cosmic imaginary.
This book takes us on a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny, through 5 chapters composed of mindmaps in which the book moves. Désidération, which will be exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in the summer of 2021, is a vast, multifaceted and constantly evolving protean project orchestrated by SMITH.
Desiderea Nuncia is a guide to the sprawling universe of these artists.
Winner of the Rencontres d'Arles 2022 photo-text prize
Published by Palais Books, 2021
23 cm x 31 cm, 132 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9782493123008
Desiderea Nuncia (The Messenger of Desideration) brings together SMITH's photographs, Lucien Raphmaj's texts and Diplomates' micro-architecture plans, as several types of knowledge and several ways of materializing the phenomena of desideration.
This mysterious term designates the feeling of an indeterminate lack, resolutely linked to the stars. When sailors of yore, lost at sea on stormy nights, no longer had the stars to guide them, de-sideration (the lack of stars, and the wish for their return) was a reality for them. Our de-sideration announces itself as the melancholy symptom of the loss of the starry sky (de-sidera), and also promises itself as a desire (desiderium): desire in the face of the disaster of a darkened sensitive world and an atrophied cosmic imaginary.
This book takes us on a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny, through 5 chapters composed of mindmaps in which the book moves. Désidération, which will be exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in the summer of 2021, is a vast, multifaceted and constantly evolving protean project orchestrated by SMITH.
Desiderea Nuncia is a guide to the sprawling universe of these artists.
Winner of the Rencontres d'Arles 2022 photo-text prize
Published by Palais Books, 2021
23 cm x 31 cm, 132 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9782493123008
Desiderea Nuncia (The Messenger of Desideration) brings together SMITH's photographs, Lucien Raphmaj's texts and Diplomates' micro-architecture plans, as several types of knowledge and several ways of materializing the phenomena of desideration.
This mysterious term designates the feeling of an indeterminate lack, resolutely linked to the stars. When sailors of yore, lost at sea on stormy nights, no longer had the stars to guide them, de-sideration (the lack of stars, and the wish for their return) was a reality for them. Our de-sideration announces itself as the melancholy symptom of the loss of the starry sky (de-sidera), and also promises itself as a desire (desiderium): desire in the face of the disaster of a darkened sensitive world and an atrophied cosmic imaginary.
This book takes us on a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny, through 5 chapters composed of mindmaps in which the book moves. Désidération, which will be exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in the summer of 2021, is a vast, multifaceted and constantly evolving protean project orchestrated by SMITH.
Desiderea Nuncia is a guide to the sprawling universe of these artists.
Winner of the Rencontres d'Arles 2022 photo-text prize
Published by Palais Books, 2021
23 cm x 31 cm, 132 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9782493123008
