© Eric Magassa/Bildupphovsrätt 2025
The Lost Series, Detroit, USA
by Eric Magassa
Artist
Eric Magassa
(Sverige, född 1972)
Date2018
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsRam: 72 × 106 × 4,1 cm
ClassificationPhotography
Credit LinePurchase 2021 (Swedish Acquisitions 2021)
Countries
On view
StockholmObject NumberMOM/2021/102
CollectionsSvenska förvärv 2021
About the artworkThe photographic suite The Lost Series was engendered by an artistic crisis. Eric Magassa felt that the discrepancy between his reality and the mass media image of Gothenburg’s housing estates needed to be bridged somehow. He approached the task with the playful social criticism of the dada movement, and his interest in animism, and spiritualism, which had been awakened through his father’s origins in Senegal and Mali. With simple masks made of cardboard and fabric, often from Ikea, he placed himself in the empty urban spaces in front of a camera on a stand with a self timer. This project moved Magassa’s practice out into the street, and it soon came to include shabby urban settings all over the world, including Detroit, USA, and Faugères in France.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat på etiketten på baksidan av konstverket, Etikett nere till vänster på baksidan av konstverket: "Eric Magassa / The Lost Series Detroit / USA 2018 / Ed 1/4 + 2AP / (signering) Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerat på etiketten på baksidan av konstverket, Etikett nere till vänster på baksidan av konstverket: "Eric Magassa / The Lost Series Detroit / USA 2018 / Ed 1/4 + 2AP / (signering) Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm