Soon It Will All Be Over, 1997

Projections on the wall / Variable dimensions

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Tra poco tutto finirà is composed of digitally manipulated photograms, metaphors for an inner landscape and mental condition. Timeless places, far from any spatial coordinates, calling to mind the scenarios of a science fiction film; the bursting of the first atomic bomb creates a metaphorical environment hostile to man in its distant artificiality, contrasting with the raw truth.

 

“On this occasion the artist creates on environment using four large canvases painted in fluorescent colors which are blank in normally white light but when illuminated by Wood’s black light, appear one by one to be the frames lifted from the sequence of original film shot on the atoll the summer the first atomic bomb was exploded. Thus the sequence of the explosion is seen, from the start right up to the formation of the mushroom cloud, in an abstract space which is more mental than physical as if it were suspended in a temporal void, initially soothing but then causing alarm and anxiety. These contradictory sentiments are familiar from looking at other past works often produced by cutting ready-made images from catalogs and magazines, removing the element yet still managing to offer a reflection on the total artificially of the world and therefore of “nature”, as it is today due to us.”

Dede Auregli