Steel-Lives, Still-Life

Steel-Lives, Still-Life - Norayr Kasper’s Forget Matisse, concentrate on Delacroix. To listen to the photographer Norayr Kasper talk about his photographs, and his journeys into Armenia’s steel past, is to enter a still life before it has arrived. He will move, wistfully, get carried away with talk of flowers and rabbits, skulls of planted rocks; this is the fading beauty and the lost relevance, he implies, indicating the dead matter of life at its last moments. […] To use a phrase from Jorge Semprun, the corpse will go on dying certainly, and the haunting familiarity of these images will pull at a history some of us can never have, and which some of us can no longer recall. We are, ultimately, as wounded as the steel, the plants and the voids; the ruins of progress oxidising and falling into hands unknown and indiscreet. […] What is to be done? We must refuse to compete with the slogan. This catalogue has been published by Skira on the occasion of the exhibition Steel-Lives, Still-Life by Norayr Kasper, 55th Venice Bienalle. Binding: Softcover Language: Italian, English, French Dimensions: 240 x 240 mm Pages: 80 Year: 2013