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Out Of Order: Bad Display III consists of images of screens cropped from used and broken LCD TVs, computer monitors, and laptops found for sale on e-shops. Now out of order, these screens are muted, voiceless, marked by flaw, by hand, or by their own inner liquid chemical flow.
Here, in their final presentation, ephemeral images of broken material objects materialize once again as ink on paper - digital signal transcribed to ink. Umbrico further emphasizes the materiality of these worn, obsolete and sold-for-parts objects by over-inking the press during printing. This intervention undermines the precision of the press and the slick-ness of the screen, calling attention to the material messiness of both.
While the intervention expresses the particularity of these objects and renders each copy of the book unique, its unbound form further subverts the idea of order. The clean readable screen, the precision of the printing press, and the typically accepted structure of a book, are all in question here: to view the book as a whole, the images are fragmented; to view a whole image, you must take the book apart. Out of Order: Bad Display destabilizes the organizational logics of the book and the screen, requiring incompatible maneuvers to view one or the other.
Published by RVB Books
Soft plastic slipcase
132 pages
180 x 280mm
ISBN 9791090306851
