The series "Body Double" is a portrait of Los Angeles - not the actual city in California, but the abstract place which is embedded in the general consciousness through the representation in popular culture, primarily in movies. “Body Double” is a hike through the streets of the metropolis, partly based on appropriated images - from Google Street View, films, or vintage imagery - partly actually photographed on location in Los Angeles. Almost nothing here is what it appears to be at first glance - the sculptures photographed in the streets as well as in hotel rooms were never in the indicated places, the images are partly automatically deconstructed or created by software; the majority of the works were created in several steps that took place outside and inside the studio.
Every picture questions and discusses its conditions of production, the authenticity of what is shown, and the unconscious expectations and experiences that one brings to the table when looking at an image.
“Body Double is a book long portrait of Los Angeles made with appropriated images, constructed images, sculpted images and manifested experiences in conversation with elements, fragments of possible memories coexisting with real deconstructions, and real uncertainties glueing it all together. It takes the viewer on a dazed walk through a city’s self and its double, all filtered by the multitude of versions we might experience of it, or we definitely did experience of it, if only through a possible, unrealistic memory.”
Elisa Medde
First edition of 500 copies, hardcover with dust jacket, 210mm × 280mm, 132 pages, 73 colour images, with a text by Elisa Medde
ISBN-978-3-200-08668-5
https://samepaper.com/Body-Double
"Apples and Oranges, Part One"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 86,6 × 61,8 cm / 34,1 × 24,4 inches
Size of frame: 91,6 × 66,8 cm / 36,1 × 26,4 inches
"1023 De Garmo Drive (Four Piece Sculpture)"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 59,6 × 43,5 cm / 23,5 × 17,1 inches
Size of frame: 64,6 × 48,5 cm / 25,5 × 19,1 inches
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Disclaimer (One)
Figueroa Terrace
"1758 North Spring Street, Part One (Blue)"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 70,2 × 49,5 cm / 27,7 × 19,5 inches
Size of frame: 75,2 × 54,5 cm / 29,7 × 21,5 inches
"Image for Sculpture, Part One" and "2249 Cahuenga Boulevard"
"2249 Cahuenga Boulevard"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 70,2 × 46,8 cm / 27,7 × 18,4 inches
Size of frame: 75,2 × 51,8 cm / 29,7 × 20,4 inches
637 South Beaudry Avenue, Part One
"South Beaudry Avenue, Part Two”
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 70,2 × 49,1 cm / 27,7 × 19,3 inches
Size of frame: 75,2 × 54,1 cm / 29,7 × 21,3 inches
637 South Beaudry Avenue, Part Three
"Red Bridge, Part Two"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 59,6 × 40,5 cm / 23,5 × 16 inches
Size of frame: 64,6 × 45,5 cm / 25,5 × 18 inches
Fountain, Part Five
"1737 Vine Street (Smoke Boxes)"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 26,7 × 36,9 cm
Size of frame: 30 × 40 cm
“1737 Vine Street (Smoke Boxes with Markers)”
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 86,7 × 58 cm / 34,1 × 22,8 inches
Size of frame: 91,7 × 63 cm / 36,1 × 24,8 inches
2329 Wilshire Boulevard, Part One (The Trash Can Fire)
"Four Letters, Part One" and "2329 Wilshire Boulevard, Part Two"
"Four Letters, Part Two"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; painted frame with museum glass
Size of print: 116 × 83,8 cm / 45,7 × 33 inches
Size of frame: 122 × 89,8 / 48 × 35,3 inches
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
"Sculpture Near Glendale Narrows"
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Pigment print on Hahnemühle rice paper, folded, mounted to archival board; hand-painted linden frame with museum glass
Size of print: 26,7 × 36,9 cm
Size of frame: 30 × 40 cm
A Candy-Colored Clown (Apples and Oranges, Part Three)
Disclaimer (Two)
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles
Installation View "Body Double" at Webber Gallery Los Angeles