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Christian Boltanski

_Teshima

It's a place you can't easily reach.
It's a quiet, beautiful island that is far from Tokyo
and the other large cities of the world.

It's a trip to listen to one's heartbeat.
The long journey and the time to think are
the important things.

It's almost like a pilgrimage.



"Human beings" are the central motif in my work.
At the root of every work is the human desire
to leave a mark indicating that one was alive.

But the beat of the heart is the ultimate symbol of
human "life."

I had a desire to make an album,
but instead of photographs, fill it with heartbeats.

While indicating that everyone is part of the same family,
this also expresses the intrinsic fact
that no two people are the same.



"Les Archives du Coeur" (Archives of the Heartbeat)

Here people are immersed in a variety of thoughts.

The transicience, fragility, value of human life_

The desire to leave something behind and the idea that
nothing will remain.



"Living a good life"
doesn't mean to remain fixated on youth nor does it mean
to attempt to live a longer life.

It means to accept the natural cycle that begins with birth
and ends with death.

There are people who lived before us and people who will
be born after us.
What's important is the spirit of transmission.

People only come back to life in other's memories.


pd: avui, en una illa increible he escoltat altres cors bategar,
he escoltat el meu i m'he n'he endut uns instant al CD,
9479
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Teshima,
me l'enduc al cor


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