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2010

Superimpose, compress, annihilate, yield!

LE DICTATOUR

composite image, 2.3 × 3 cm, framed 29.7 × 42 cm, photographic image, glass on glass

Le Dictatour presents a single image reduced to the scale of a postage stamp. The tiny photograph is framed in a black frame with glass on both sides, resembling a laboratory slide prepared for microscopic observation.

Within this miniature image all the works produced by the artist up to that moment are superimposed. Installations, objects and spatial interventions collapse into a single visual field, compressed into an almost unreadable density.

The work transforms an entire artistic trajectory into a fragile specimen. What would normally occupy rooms, bodies and architectural spaces is condensed into a microscopic surface that demands a different form of attention.

The viewer is invited to confront the paradox of scale: an entire body of work contained within an image so small it nearly escapes perception. The practice becomes specimen. The trajectory becomes residue.

Credits
Curated by
Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe

On loop while making it: E ti vengo a cercare, C.S.I. →