
A Dying Monster
- Publisher
- Well Gedacht Publishing
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- softcover
24 x 17 cm
224 pages
A Dying Monster is a photographic collection of corporate logos; plastered on people’s bodies, machines, and surroundings. In A Dying Monster, Eren Ileri treats Formula 1 motor racing as a defining marker of extraction capitalism accelerating toward its own decline. In this mainly black-and-white photographic documentation representing a particular time frame of motor racing of the last decade, Eren paints a picture of Formula 1 that captures the racing spectacle’s contemporary character: drivers, as mere operators at the steering wheel, executing high-performance tasks with an extreme level of preciseness but with increasingly less variety of personal driving styles; and their technological counterparts as extensions of human bodies, aided by corporate organizations populated by engineers and alike, and driven by complex data analyses.