After Politics, (April 25, 2022), 2025

Digital photograph, 30” x 23”

The still reproduced above is from Antonioni’s film Red Desert (1964). A section of a photograph documenting the Battle of the Valle Giulia in 1968, a clash between police and protesters in Rome, is inserted into the falling newspaper.

Placed below this is a photograph of the back of a man reading a newspaper dated April 25, 2022 at a cafe in Rome. A transparent still from Antonioni’s film La notte (1961) has replaced the previous image. The headline has been altered to read “After Politics.” The text added to the page on the right is the meditation 4:3 from The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. “This world is change; this life, opinion.”