Chromogenic print. 55 x 50 cm [21.7 x 19.7 inches]. Edition of 50 works, signed and numbered verso. For the Whitechapel Gallery, Thomas Ruff has created a new work from his Substrat series to accompany this in the 2016 exhibition Electronic Superhighway 2016-1966. The luminous photographs in the Substrat series blur historic photographic techniques of camera-less photography utilised by image-makers such as Man Ray with contemporary modes of visual appropriation. In order to make this body of 'camera-less' work, Ruff adopted obscure images of Japanese anime and digitally manipulated their neon colours and forms to produce phantasmagoric abstractions detached from the original image.
