Moshe Ninio, Sight I and Sight III, 2016

Sight [I / III] is a photographic work in two layers and three steps. With the omission of the
intermediate step only the first and last remain, which are brought together. The upper layer
is also the earliest. It is ‘forgrounded’ with the help of a stick (from a broom). The upper layer
of the image consists of a ‘wall-photograph’ that doesn’t really exist but rather was simulated
from the start (as in: simulation), that is, fabricated (what nowadays could be called: ‘posttruth’).
It is the product of a rudimentary painting action performed in the first version of
Photoshop (1988), where a brick is painted in a red filter color to be made into a photogram,
then replicated.
The image (of the ‘wall’) was hence first produced in 1988, immediately with the program’s
(Photoshop) release as a kind of ‘training’ in local conditions (the relations of stone / pixel,
the fabrication of old age). It has been used to create a work that formerly hung on the main
wall of the Israel Museum’s historic lobby (commissioned by Sarit Shapira), with subsequent
variations presented at the Photography Biennial in Ein Harod (1991), the Ghent Museum
(1998) and the Crousel Gallery (2000).
The current version – a staged photograph of a print originally made in 1991 – makes use
of this image as a fact in the world. And, as ‘fact’, it is capable of producing yet another
immaterial image, that is, a ‘shadow’ generated through a prop (at the background of which
are, obviously, Warhol and Jones)

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