2-UP. NADA 2010: Barbara Ess and Maximilian Goldfarb
Barbara Ess and Maximilian Goldfarb
Long Island City,
NY
: 2-UP. 2010
2-UP is a year-long poster project initiated by Adam Shecter and Joe Winter, who will release a series of double-sided posters created by two artists working together in the interest of making low-cost editions available to a wide audience.
This special edition of 2-UP by Barbara Ess and Maximilian Goldfarb was created for distribution at the 2010 New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair. The poster was featured as part of the site-specific project Booooooth, curated by Rose Marcus. In their images, Ess and Goldfarb both address notions of transmission, perception and distance.
To arrive at her image, Ess initially filmed the moon with an extreme digital zoom. She then rephotographed and remastered to achieve a high resolution image. The poster thus shows the moon itself dwarfed by it's aura, an optical artifact of the process of it's capturing.
Goldfarb translates a piece of text appropriated by Ess from a surveillance website into semaphore. The website watched over the US-Mexico border via a web-cam. The text explains: "In this area you are looking for persons coming from the right heading towards the left. They may or may not be carrying backpacks. Please report this activity."
Category: Posters/Cards
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