Barbara Ess Maximillian Goldfarb (1 results)

Paper Poster. Condition: New. 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." 2 Double sided Posters, on the front is Ess' photograph and on the back is Goldfarb's text translated into semaphor. 31 1/4" x 21" folded to 10 1/2" x 8". In original plastic envelope. New.