Adrià Julià: Not Even the Dead will Survive follows the meaning and
production of currency in the context of photography. Adrià Julià's
works—image, sculpture, and film—question the various modes of
monetary representation.
In addition to the artist's work, the book features a trenchant 10,000-word essay by professor and art historian Juli Carson. From Europe to
South America and through the physicality of the bank note to the digitalization
of the Visa card, the publication takes a philosophical and poetic
look at its subject.
Juli Carson is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Critical and Curatorial Area in the Department of Art. She is also Director of UCI's University Art Galleries. She is the author of several books on the convergence of psychoanalysis, hermeneutics and conceptual art.
Adrià Julià (born 1974 in Barcelona, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose work includes film and video installations, photography, performance, and printed matter. Julià studies the evasive language of images as a means of representation and reception of personal and collective historical events. His critique of opticality and visuality points to the reliance on images in the act of negotiating memory, resistance, displacement, and survival.
