Silvia Montevecchi, Jisei no ku

Jisei no ku

Silvia Montevecchi

Publisher
Seipersei
Year
2018
ISBN
9788894297034
Specifications
Size: 30 x 24 cm
Cover: semi-rigid on Fedrigoni Woodstock Betulla 285gsm, print 1/0 black
Interior: 64 pages on Fedrigoni Symbol Freelife 150gsm, print 4/4
Binding: thread-sewn paperback with exposed spine
Italian / English text

A project on the borderline between life and death. Jisei, the last word spoken before death; ku, referring to the poetic moment. Within the volume are short poems expressing a final thought, a farewell to the world by samurai and monks who wished to leave one before disappearing forever. Silvia Montevecchi chooses some of the verses she found most evocative, tries to extract their core, and reworks this sensation through photography, recreating a fantastic world outside time and reality, in which death becomes a moment of suspension, a step towards the unknown.

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