The End of the Long March (2011) photo, diasec, 110 x 65 cm

À l’aube du 19 octobre 1935, Joseph-Auguste de Habsbourg-Lorraine, archiduc d’Autriche, prince palatin de Hongrie et prince de Bohême a chassé un cerf à Csákvár chez mon arrière-grand-père, Móric Esterházy.
De l’autre côté de la Terre, le 19 octobre 1935 s’achève la Longue Marche des communistes chinois et de leur chef Mao Zedong.

The picture, found in the family album, was made on October 19. 1935 on my grandfather’s estate. According to the documents the bull had been shot down by Archduke Joseph August, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia. The night hunt coincides with the last day of Mao Tse Tung’s “Long March”. The bluish heavens in the photograph and the stars are the positive copies of mold and tear on the negative slide.

 

exhibition view at the acb Gallery