“A radically restricted camera was fixed on half of a neon sign in Ben Russell’s Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008), which displayed the letters ‘APP’ and only half of a ‘Y’ in an erratic, discontinuous pulse. If the mention of Dubai conjures a cosmopolitan skyline, Russell renounces the possibility of seeing even a single street. As Mark McElhatten writes in the program notes, Happiness is always, incomplete, and here, in a critique that Debord may have particularly appreciated, it’s a brightly colored sign for a shop that promises everything but sells nothing.” – Genevie Yu, Reverse Shot

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