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This series occupies a unique place in Gao Bo’s body of work, being closer to a “traditional” photographic practice than to the monumental installations to which he has devoted himself in recent years. Yet it reflects the same spirit of experimentation, the same desire to revisit the earliest photographs to extract their purest truth. Gao Bo highlights the limits of language, and in doing so attempts to transcend the incommunicability of his experience in Tibet, asserting in his work—to borrow the words of philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien—that “beauty is a wound.”
Published by Editions CD, 1996, numbered copy (No. 120)
Hardcover with fabric binding, 25 cm 33 cm, 76 pages
ISBN 9506985-1-4
This series occupies a unique place in Gao Bo’s body of work, being closer to a “traditional” photographic practice than to the monumental installations to which he has devoted himself in recent years. Yet it reflects the same spirit of experimentation, the same desire to revisit the earliest photographs to extract their purest truth. Gao Bo highlights the limits of language, and in doing so attempts to transcend the incommunicability of his experience in Tibet, asserting in his work—to borrow the words of philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien—that “beauty is a wound.”
Published by Editions CD, 1996, numbered copy (No. 120)
Hardcover with fabric binding, 25 cm 33 cm, 76 pages
ISBN 9506985-1-4
