Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film (3/83), 2006/2021

Archival Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm
17 × 23 cm (6 ¾ × 9 inches)
34 × 39 cm (13 ⅜ × 15 ⅜ inches) (framed)

criticized for releasing posthumous editions of questionable origins, all stamped with the authenticity of the estate.

83 photographs have been printed from the original super 8 film, each photograph corresponding to a single frame of the film’s four-second entirety.

Disseminated into another format as multiple photographs, the work ‘Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film’ expands and grows despite its fake authenticity. In a time where public information proliferates instantly and globally without being filtered for truth, the effects leave lasting imprints, shaping collective consciousness. Horvitz has previously experimented with the notion of art as viral matter, with the potential to encounter unexpected audiences and create fictional interventions in reality.

The work exists as one edition of all 83 photographs as a set, as well as each individual photograph as a single edition.