Alexandra Dautel
May You Continue To Blossom
Alexandra Dautel’s May You Continue to Blossom is a critical investigation into the nature of illusion, told via the story of Neot Semadar – a kibbutz and self-styled utopia in the desert of Southern Israel. Through a feverish, layered constellation of words and images, it walks the line between delusion and belief, visually exploring the texture and terms of ideology, and asking what lies behind the construction of an ideal place.
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_ARLES BOOK AWARDS 2022, THE PHOTO-TEXT BOOK AWARD, SHORTLISTED
Alexandra Dautel; May You Continue To Blossom; 224pp.; 20x26mm; Offset print;
Graphic Design by Alexandra Dautel and Studio Nüssli+Nuessli;
Published by cpress, Zurich; Distributed by Idea Books,
Amsterdam (World) and cpress, Zurich (Switzerland);
ISBN 978-3-907333-00-6; First Edition: 700 copies;
CC-BY-NC-SA, 2021
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