Eli Durst – The Four Pillars

Eli Durst – The Four PillarsDurst scrutinises aspirational American fantasies of happiness, self improvement and individuality in a provocative critique of social rituals, groups and norms. The Four Pillars grew out of a relationship with a faith based self help group in Newtown, Connecticut, that Durst photographed over several years. Despite their ostensibly comfortable lives, these affluent suburbanites felt unfulfilled and directionless. They met weekly in church basements

Clear silver anodised aluminium

375 photographs

This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created

The title is an invitation as much as it is a challenge

and the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire

to adopt the gentle rhythms of sewing

Its this inversion of the anthropocentric view that makes Gills images so compelling that

what took place off-camera

Offset printedSmyth-sewn with embossed back cover textFirst edition of 500 copies

an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith

245 × 265 mm

Notwithstanding articulates itself as a laconic series of speech acts