To be ill is a sort of resentment in itself. Against this resentment the invalid has only one great remedy — I call it Russian fatalism, fatalism free from revolt and with which the Russian soldier to whom a campaign proves unbearable ultimately lays himself down in the snow.*
Paschalis Zervas, To Night. Albedo. Pharmacies. (Νυκτός. Albedo. Φαρμακεία.), ed. "alloglotta", Athens 2011.
artist's book • pages: 72 • 70 numbered copies
ISBN 978-960-99385-4-9
artist's book • pages: 72 • 70 numbered copies
ISBN 978-960-99385-4-9
REFERENCES:
The stop-motion photographs of Eadweard Muybridge | a frame from Alain Resnais’s film Night and fog | the dead soldier from Paolo Uccello’s painting The battle of San Romano | * a phrase from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo | The Arcadian shepherds or Et in Arcadia ego of Nicolas Poussin | Oedipus and Sphinx of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres | the photographs taken by Fanis Papachristopoulos, during a performance in the streets of Athens.
