Lucas Leffler

Ektachrome is part of the APS project developed as part of the Picto Lab residency, of which the Belgian artist is the winner in 2022. This work is visually different from his first project (Zilverbeek), in which he made silver mud prints. However, it follows the same experimental approach, through the telling of a documented story about the turn of the 2000s, which saw the transition between the silver and digital industries. The corpus of Ektachrome images was produced in 2022 by the artist on the ruined site of Kodak-Pathé (1961-2007) in Chalon-sur-Saône (FR). Although unique, these works are offered in 3 copies + an artist's proof. For the artist, direct reproduction on color negatives (the largest negatives marketed by Kodak) is a way of celebrating celluloid film as a work in its own right. Under a custom-built steel lightbox, Lucas Leffler allows the film to take the place of the print it usually serves. It's also a way for the artist to explore its materiality through the application of the C41 process introduced by Kodak in 1972, a cross-development process that gives the works the saturated colors that have made Kodak such a success for decades.