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Part Two—Amor
omnia vincit
"Love conquers all, as a working hypothesis, or the innermost core
of pain."
—P.O. Enquist, The Book About Blanche and Marie
to view the photographs
of Part One click here
For Nadja Bournonville,
the photographs of "Amor omnia vincit" have become a series
of questions rather then answers, like stories left wide open. They question
both the personal and universal experience of love—the distance
between need and desire, the restless hunt for intimacy, and our hope
to be truly known by the other; and, on the other hand, the vertigo—the
fear of falling, being left and rejected.
After reading P.O. Enquist’s "The book about Blanche and Marie,”
Bournonville decided to divide her project into three parts inspired by
the question books written by the main character, Blanche. Each page of
these books is said to start with a question and it is through her sometimes
erratic answers that a story gradually unfolds. In Part One, "One
for every wish," I was occupied with the question I applied as a
child to every situation, why? The curiosity and playfulness of this question
drove my search forward through continuous reading, questioning and image
making. Part two has developed similarly, where the scenes built up within
the images act as spaces for thoughts and ideas regarding the impossible
possibility of love.
(Bournonville, 2009)
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