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STATIC artist book

 


Author / Photographer : ADIL HASAN
Design and Edit: ADIL HASAN
Edition 300

192 Pages, 48 french folds (8 page fold technique),
fine art gloss paper treated with
high gloss laminate on all 192 pages

Black soft cover with reflective aluminium foil pasting, debossing and silver screenprinting and foiling

Language : English

ISBN : 978-93-6038-463-0
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“What is the role of the TV in our lives? Early contemplation oscillated between a gift from the gods, and a Trojan horse; entering our houses under the pretext of harmless entertainment as a garb over the undermining of the fabric of our societies.

But irrespective, even with the Orwellian Newspeak similarity, or dissimilarity, we are now from a generation which has hardly known life without it.
Looking back at all the years as an audience to this contraption, I merely wish to express my opinion on the collective information emanating from the TV, and document the spaces that remind me of it.

STATIC is a meditation on spectral mechanics in an age of perpetual transmission. Beginning with the television, the twentieth century’s most powerful domestic instrument of mass persuasion, it traces the evolution of the screen to today’s algorithmic systems that quietly manufacture reality, new truths, transforming violence into spectacle and attention into a resource to be extracted.”

Within the folds, concealed, are images from various screens; phones, tv’s, computer monitors. These are the images I live with, the images fed to me through televisions, phones and computer monitors. I have photographed these screens, which have become the window through which I experience reality.







   






When Abba was ill -
(edition 700)
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My father was diagnosed with cancer in May 2012.

At the time these images had been taken, I’d been telling myself that it was to be a recording of how my father would fight, how my family would see him through this horrible time, of my mother’s love for him.

It took some time for us to realize that it was a malignant, fairly advanced and a viciously growing tumor. It took us his death to realise that there never ever had been any hope.

He passed away in November, the same year, in the industrial town he lived and worked.
I guess all things pass.
Often slowly… and sometimes abruptly.

In time my memory congealed into vague impressions of what I thought I saw, blurred and faded. These photographs are almost all I now remember.

Review article on Trans Asia Photography








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