Publisher's Description
‘Lâmo Lâva’ revolves around a journey undertaken by visual artist Melanie Matthieu to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps, where a Marian apparition is said to have occurred in 1846. The book comprises photographic and text-based sections, each of which is distinctly bound into a folded cover. The black-and-white photographs meander between bodies and landscapes, outside and inside, while parallel events and analogies are unfolded and traced in a labyrinth of evocative textual fragments and visual associations drawn from historical, biographical, and narrative coincidences, drawing the reader along trails of elliptical echoes.
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