Jack and Leigh Ruby
Michael Jon & Alan
Jack and Leigh Ruby’s Car Wash Incident, 2013–15, directed by the Rubys and produced by Eve Sussman and Simon Lee, is a looped two-channel video that blurs the line between reality and fiction. Installed on hanging screens in the middle of Michael Jon Gallery’s recently opened Detroit space, it was based around a staged aerial photo from 1975depicting three people, a station wagon, and a car-wash sign at a dilapidated urban intersectionwhich the directors had originally fabricated as supporting evidence for an insurance scam (the two worked as a brother-sister con-artist team from