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TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (2017)

Date: 2017
Media: Prints, video, book.
Video Duration: 4min 22sec
TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (2017)

This work is a repetition of Ed Ruscha’s 1962 publication of the same name. The photographic panels in this version have been produced during drives around the city of Los Santos and Blaine County – the virtual world that makes up the video game Grand Theft Auto 5. Using out-of-the-box technology within the game, I have produced a version of the seminal photography artifact that accepts GTAV as an exploitable corporate reality, akin to the signs and images that make up our own world.

TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (2017) Cover
TWO PAGE SPREAD FROM BOOK TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS (2017)
LTD, GROVE ST., DAVIS
TWO PAGE SPREAD FROM TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS
RON, LAGO ZANCUDO
Segment 0001.Still011
LTD, GRAPESEED MAIN ST., GRAPESEED
GLOBE OIL, ROUTE 68, GRAND SENORA DESERT
The original by Rucsha exhibited alongstime TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS at CAC France 2022 Photograph: Aurelien Mole
TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS at CAC France 2022 Photograph: AurelienMole

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