Assassinations

This series is genealogically linked to numerous themes and characters in Pepperstein’s art. Revisiting these works as a single whole, Pepperstein connects them to the “zen theory of the moment.” “The cameraman points his camera as the assassin pulls the trigger, there’s a flash [. . .]: these are stills from history, time slows down and we see the moment in which things happen.” In a strange way, the zen philosophy of time and the apologia of its absolute value can be expressed in the language of photography and film, entering in an unexpected relationship with Antonioni’s Blowup, the most important film about photography. Conjecture by commentators seized by intellectual or cultural ambition is always part of Pepperstein’s work.