Jeff Wall is an important photographer of our time. His works are most of the time connected to paintings or reproduction of elements from stories. In the after “ Invisible Man”, Wall reproduced an incredible image paying attention to all the details which bought it back from the book. Ralph Ellison wrote “Invisible man” in the late 1940’s, responding to his compulsion to put invisibility down in black and white, by telling his story. The character is a black male; while he was attending a protest, he followed accidentally into a hole, where he decided to stay and live away from the social eyes. The entire photographs were recreated by Wall paying attention to the minimum details, as he always does. The main installations are clearly the thousands of bulbs on the ceiling, those light bulbs and perhaps the light box ( used to show his work ) become semiotics for the “ Invisible man” searching for his essential self. Each Light bulb can be viewed as a symbolic step towards self-realization. Also the lights are not all switched on as all the power that they need, the lights will probably explode instantly. This metaphor can be connected to our state of mind or feelings, We are enable to fall different emotions at the same time. Everything comes from our experience and those experiences needs to be digested in an extremely low process but a fraction of a second to come up on our mind, as these electric volts need to make the tungsten incandescent as it takes months to dissolve itself.
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