…of course, she was happy with these homages, but that is not why she had herself photographed, she had herself photographed to construct, under the guise of frivolity, what Poe called “The chamber of melancholy.” To hold on, to silently hold on. Its separateness, isolation - like a photograph among photographs. Yet, such connections are, it seems to me, of much less importance than the integralness, the integrity, the unity of each paragraph. To say, “stand-alone” may be misleading since, in some cases, there is some connection between one paragraph and the next. This is the first of maybe 150 stand-alone paragraphs in the 153 pages of Leger’s small-format work. Surrender, premeditate nothing, want nothing, neither discern nor dissect nor stare, but rather shift, dodge, lose focus, and - slowing down - consider the only material that presents itself, in its disorder and even in its order.Īt the start of her luminous 2008 book Exposition, Nathalie Leger makes clear to the reader the need to abandon all expectations at the entryway.
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