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Thrown into this — Pauline Kail

Series of 8 analogue photographs.

Published in ISSUE XI: COMMON GROUND.


This is the story of an angel after its fall.


The images serve as an analogy between the angel's fall and the concept of being thrown into the world without choice, without being asked, which applies to every human being in existence.

 

The philosopher Martin Heidegger describes this phenomenon as ‘Geworfenheit’, which can be translated as ‘thrownness’. Heidegger understands it as the inevitability of existence and the arbitrary, obscure, and unknowable processes of nature that lead to the constitutive fact of having to exist.

 

The series explores the ontological question of the nature of being, and the common ground of existence.


the protection

the birth

the fall

the world is wearing off

the waiting room

the sin i

the sin ii

the reflection


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