Sunday night, memory fragments from animal planet. A gazelle being ripped apart in slow motion by a pack of hyenas. Soothing to watch as the weekend comes to an end, and existential anxiety is at its peak. The comforting assurance of knowing that nature will always take its course. Of having no choice – but to accept, and let go.
Hope Blinds Reason is a visual narrative from a series of journeys made in India along the river Ganga, from its source in the Himalayas to its delta in the Bay of Bengal. It is a story about an attempt to come to terms with one of the most elementary of human experiences, love and loss.
Published by Journal, Stockholm, 2019
23 x 30,5 cm. 72 pages. 35 color images. English.
Soft cover with red transparent plastic dust jacket.
Essay by Aveek Sen.
Winner of Norway’s Most Beautiful Book 2020, and gold in category Artists’ Books.
PUBLISHED BY:
Terje Abusdal
Terje Abusdal (b. 1978) is a visual artist with a background from the KMD Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus. He has published several photo books: Radius 500 Meters (2015), Hope Blinds Reason (2019), and Costa Bravo Holiday Paradise (2024) with Journal in Sweden, as well as Slash & Burn (2018) with Kehrer Verlag in Germany. In 2020, Hope Blinds Reason won the award for Norway’s Most Beautiful Book. Terje has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, with showings at Bergen Kunsthall, Preus Museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, and Mattatoio di Roma.
