After Leonardo (1973-2015) is a constantly evolving film installation. It was first screened at Filmaktion, Liverpool, 1973 as a six-projector 16mm film performance. It has since been a developing installation and performance work, also including video, sound improvisations, live recordings and additional projections.

The version of After Leonardo, exhibited here, includes a slide projection, a collage triptych, a video projection and the original torn piece of magazine featuring a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. The work attacks artistic authenticity and the instability of meaning across history.

“One interpretation of the juxtaposition of a real object (albeit a reproduction of a cultural icon) alongside its cinematic representation is that it highlights the reality of the cinematic in the context of an object we assume to be part of the real physical universe” (Malcolm Le Grice, 2001, in Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age, 277).