Michael Najjar after Caspar David Friedrich

The human being as an ambivalent creature of soaring powers of imagination yet limited means of realisation is shown by Michael Najjar’s anomaly (2015). Najjar takes photos of a crash site in California’s Mojave desert and, drawing on Caspar David Friedrich’s 1823/1824 painting Das Eismeer (The Sea of Ice), rearranges them as a jagged, towering heap of wreckage against a chain of hills banked in fog.