
Untitled (After Depersonalization)
2019
A small photograph housed within a scavenged cardboard frame, this intimate 2019 work by Dan Finsel operates at the threshold between image and object, clinical detachment and embodied feeling. The piece takes its title from depersonalization, a psychological phenomenon in which the self becomes estranged from its own sensations and perceptions, and that conceptual charge infuses the work's modest materiality with unexpected weight. The found frame is not incidental but constitutive, introducing a logic of repurposing and displacement that mirrors the dissociative condition the work invokes. Finsel, a 2016 Los Angeles Artadia Awardee, works consistently within a practice that treats everyday materials as carriers of psychological and cultural residue. At just over seventeen centimeters tall, this piece rewards the collector who values compression over spectacle, work that withholds as much as it reveals. The signature confirms the artist's direct hand, while the absence of a traditional frame keeps the object's raw, provisional quality intact, refusing the false authority that conventional presentation would impose. For a collector drawn to the intersection of conceptual rigor and material vulnerability, this work offers a rare combination of intellectual depth and physical delicacy. Its small scale and humble construction are precisely the point, collapsing the distance between a clinical diagnostic term and the quiet, tactile experience of holding something that feels both familiar and irreducibly strange.
- Medium
- Photograph, found cardboard frame
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Artadia Benefit Auction
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