RETURN

Isla Mujeres, Mexico. June 2021. 35mm © Clara Badulescu

“Every change of context, every change of medium can be interpreted as a negation of the status of a copy as a copy—as an essential rupture, as a new start that opens a new future. In this sense, a copy is never really a copy; rather, a new original in a new context. Every copy is by itself a flaneur—experiencing time and again its own ‘profane illuminations’ that turn it into an original. It loses old auras and gains new auras. It remains perhaps the same copy, but it becomes different originals.”

Boris Groys, Going Public. 2011