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Published 1996: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout / “Parallel Text” English and French

Original pictorial boards. 128 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. (HQ387)

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A profound narrative of sexual and cultural difference

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Born in Nigeria in 1955, Rotimi Fani-Kayodé spent the essential part of his life with Alex Hirst.

His works illustrates the affinities between cultures and individuals. Yoruba Africa takes on an overwhelming importance.

Rotimi Fani Kayode created a photographic worid in which the body is the focal site for an exploration of the relationship between erotic fantasy and ancestral spiritual values. In his artistic project he found the freedom to use the complexity of his experience as a resource with which to embark upon a journey into emotional states of being where it is hard to tell where sexuality ends and where spirituality begins.

What he brought back from his travels into such nocturnal spaces are glimpses into a world illuminated by the ancient enigma of something so violent, so marvellous and so tragic as to be unrepresentable : the human experience of ecstacy

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