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Desiderea Nuncia (The Messenger of Desideration) brings together SMITH’s photographs, texts by Lucien Raphmaj, and Diplomates’ micro-architectural plans, as well as various forms of knowledge and ways of giving tangible form to the phenomena of desideration.
This mysterious term refers to a sense of an indeterminate longing, inextricably linked to the stars. When sailors of old, lost at sea on stormy nights, could no longer rely on the stars for guidance, de-sideration (the absence of the stars and the longing for their return) became a reality for them. Our “désidération” presents itself as the melancholic symptom of the loss of the starry sky (de-sidera), and also promises to be a desire (desiderium): a desire in the face of the disaster of a darkened sensory world and an atrophied cosmic imagination.
This book takes us through five chapters, composed of mind maps through which the book moves, on a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny. Presented during the summer of 2021 at the Rencontres d’Arles, Désidération is a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving project orchestrated by SMITH.
Desiderea Nuncia thus serves as a guide to entering the sprawling universe of these artists.
Winner of the Photo-Text Prize at the 2022 Rencontres d’Arles
Published by Palais Books, 2021
23 cm 31 cm, 132 pages, in very good condition
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Desiderea Nuncia (The Messenger of Desideration) brings together SMITH’s photographs, texts by Lucien Raphmaj, and Diplomates’ micro-architectural plans, as well as various forms of knowledge and ways of giving tangible form to the phenomena of desideration.
This mysterious term refers to a sense of an indeterminate longing, inextricably linked to the stars. When sailors of old, lost at sea on stormy nights, could no longer rely on the stars for guidance, de-sideration (the absence of the stars and the longing for their return) became a reality for them. Our “désidération” presents itself as the melancholic symptom of the loss of the starry sky (de-sidera), and also promises to be a desire (desiderium): a desire in the face of the disaster of a darkened sensory world and an atrophied cosmic imagination.
This book takes us through five chapters, composed of mind maps through which the book moves, on a sub-lunar journey, a reverie, a ritual of reconciliation with your cosmic destiny. Presented during the summer of 2021 at the Rencontres d’Arles, Désidération is a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving project orchestrated by SMITH.
Desiderea Nuncia thus serves as a guide to entering the sprawling universe of these artists.
Winner of the Photo-Text Prize at the 2022 Rencontres d’Arles
Published by Palais Books, 2021
23 cm 31 cm, 132 pages, in very good condition
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