Exhibition: Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency
Curated by Joes Segal and Marieke Drost
The site-specific installation covers the Wende Museum’s windows with a layer of coded drawings. The seemingly abstract drawings originate from photographs selected to represent the identity and worldview of the artist. Using a custom-built painting machine, the intimate portfolio was subjected to a series of manipulations and encodings to the point of unrecognizability.
Hyperreality, a term coined by Jean Baudrillard, blurs the distinction between reality and representation. In today's digital world some of our fundamental human needs - for self-representation, communication, and belonging - are met through hyperreality. In return for a momentary satisfaction of our thirst for contact, we often consent to pay the price of being watched, monitored, and controlled. While surveillance has many dimensions, Hyperreality focuses on our rooted compliance with it.
