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Top, photograph by David Bagnall, A woman living opposite Ironbridge power station, 1972, Shropshire, England. Via. Bottom, Manon van den Eeden, How it spins, 2023, Stainless steel, motor, battery. Installation view at piccalilli, London, November 8 - 26, 2023. Via.

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Reality itself founders in hyperrealism, the meticulous reduplication of the real, preferably through another, reproductive medium, such as photography. From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own ritual extermination: the hyperreal.

Jean Baudrillard, from Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1976. Via.