FIÈVRE

Lorenzo Castore
FIÈVRE

Photographs: Lorenzo Castore

Text: Caroline Benichou

Publisher: Lamaindonne

134 pages

Pictures: 60

Year: 2024

ISBN: 978-2-492920-08-0

Price: 36 €

Comments: Illustrated softcover with folding jacket, Swiss binding, 25,7 x 19,2cm, silver ink on black paper for the cover and b&w photographs.

Fever goes in every which direction. It is born of an emotional involvement in my personal experience which consists of many things at one time… a need for spiritual and intellectual growth, an abandonment to sensual desire, the attempt to relate to others here and now, and a tension towards the infinitely mysterious. Fever is fed by curiosity, empathy and instinct, but one’s energy and capacity are limited. I don’t have enough time to spare my efforts, so I dedicate myself as much as possible to what I am doing. For me, a self-portrait results from a lifetime’s work composed of a myriad of parts, each one independent and with its own personality, with value in itself but whose signification is amplified within the general frame of the full work. A self-portrait can be the photo of a stone, a dog, a mountain, a tree, a stranger, my mother or myself, or anything else. From the moment I decide to represent something, it means it speaks to me, concerns me, looks like me, is made of my own substance. And so, of course this book is yet again an attempt at self-portraiture, as any work done in this spirit would be.

"Excerpt from the interview between Caroline Benichou and Lorenzo Castore"