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Antoine Geiger’s (a very young – 20 – french photograph) Sur-Fake Project is placing the screen as an object of “mass subculture”, alienating the relation to our own body, and more generally to the physical world.
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« Mankind, which in Homer’s time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, is now one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order. »
Walter Banjamin, The work of art in the age of of its mechanical reproducibility (1935)
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Website: antoine geiger
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