Eli Rezkallah: Life in Plastik
Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.77 x 31.9 cm | 240 pp
Lannoo | 2022 | 9789401483339
Eli Rezkallah is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Plastik magazine, which
he launched at the age of 21.
Life in Plastik is a five-act visual account of how childhood memories informed Rezkallah's photography throughout the years.
The work typically juxtaposes extravagant beauty and fashion withĀ unnerving melancholia and lethargy. His subjects, styled with razor-sharpĀ meticulousness and placed in surreal settings, feel at once stoic and empty:Ā unimaginative souls lost in a hyper-imaginary world.
Born in Lebanon, amid the civil war, Rezkallah lived his formative years in a beachfront resort on the Mediterranean coast used as a shelter for Christian families migrating from Beirut to escape the war. Being surrounded by women who were constantly putting on a good face and deliberately turning a blind eye towards their country's tense sociopolitical situation quickly became a source of great inspiration.
Rezkallah's work is a visual representation of euphoric denial and the measures people takeĀ to escape reality and recreate their own. No matter how colourfuly and
vibrantly they paint their world, they can never escape the sentiment of dread they feel from living in an environment constantly on the verge of destruction.
Plastik magazine, quickly became an anthem for a lost generation of dreamers around the world, and, soon enough, a qlobal phenomenon recognized by the likes of international figures such as RuPaul Charles, Paris Hilton, and Miley Cyrus.
āPlastikās gift to the world is beauty, colour, magic and imagination. The gift is more important today than ever before.ā Ā RuPaul
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Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.77 x 31.9 cm | 240 pp
Lannoo | 2022 | 9789401483339
Eli Rezkallah is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Plastik magazine, which
he launched at the age of 21.
Life in Plastik is a five-act visual account of how childhood memories informed Rezkallah's photography throughout the years.
The work typically juxtaposes extravagant beauty and fashion withĀ unnerving melancholia and lethargy. His subjects, styled with razor-sharpĀ meticulousness and placed in surreal settings, feel at once stoic and empty:Ā unimaginative souls lost in a hyper-imaginary world.
Born in Lebanon, amid the civil war, Rezkallah lived his formative years in a beachfront resort on the Mediterranean coast used as a shelter for Christian families migrating from Beirut to escape the war. Being surrounded by women who were constantly putting on a good face and deliberately turning a blind eye towards their country's tense sociopolitical situation quickly became a source of great inspiration.
Rezkallah's work is a visual representation of euphoric denial and the measures people takeĀ to escape reality and recreate their own. No matter how colourfuly and
vibrantly they paint their world, they can never escape the sentiment of dread they feel from living in an environment constantly on the verge of destruction.
Plastik magazine, quickly became an anthem for a lost generation of dreamers around the world, and, soon enough, a qlobal phenomenon recognized by the likes of international figures such as RuPaul Charles, Paris Hilton, and Miley Cyrus.
āPlastikās gift to the world is beauty, colour, magic and imagination. The gift is more important today than ever before.ā Ā RuPaul
