JUST AN ILLUSION

AFTER ED RUSCHA

2008

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Pigment inkjet print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper

95 x 130 cm

With the advent of digital technologies, it seems that many items of film photography are condemned to disappear, therefore they are already charged with melancholy.

Just an illusion (After Ed Ruscha) refers to Ed Ruscha‘s Word Paintings, an enigmatic series of words painted or screen-printed by the artist from the 1960s on. It shows an ephemeral sculpture made out of film strips that have been developed without having been exposed. There is nothing on the film, but the possibility of an image to come that everyone can imagine. There is nothing in the photograph, but pieces of blank film that tell us that all this is just an illusion. The conclusion is yours to draw.