BORIS ELDAGSEN - THE ELECTRICIAN

Technique: Hahnemühle Fine Art Print.
Image size: 26 x 15.22 cm.
Sheet size: 30 × 24 cm.
Exclusive 2022 edition.
Edition: 10 + 2 AP
Available edition number: 7 / 10
Signed, dated, and Ed. No. by the artist on the reverse in pencil.

Boris Eldagsen – The Electrician

The Electrician can be read as the culmination of Pseudomnesia I – an image in which Eldagsen's strategy of deliberately destabilizing photographic certainties is condensed. The scene appears familiar and uncanny at the same time: two figures, an intimate touch, a technical intervention. But what initially seems like a moment of care or medical precision quickly tips into an ambivalence of control, dependence, and latent threat.

The visual grammar clearly borrows from historical photography: lighting, grain, and body language allude to a documentary heritage. But the AI ​​systematically subverts these references. Hands grasp without clearly acting; tools exist without a defined function; the relationships between the figures remain unstable. The AI ​​doesn't create an error, but rather a productive uncertainty.

This is precisely where the mastery of this work lies. The Electrician doesn't show what was, but rather how credible an image can be without ever having taken place. Eldagsen pushes photography to its epistemological endpoint: when images are completely convincing without requiring reality, photography becomes the construction of power, memory, and meaning. As the self-proclaimed "gravedigger of photography," Eldagsen doesn't bury the image itself—but rather its claim to truth.