At the other side of the rabbit hole
2022
SILKSCREEN SCREENS / 3D-PRINTS / VIDEO INSTALLATION
Did you notice any new habits in your image consumption recently? Perhaps your hand keeps on scrolling and jumping from one image to another, dragging you into the mindless void of an unending collection with no personal connection?
Welcome to the other side, where floating images are treated as found objects and mindless scrolling has become an act of treasure hunting. Dive into the field of tension where the rules of the game are out of your control. Enjoy this visual delight while slowly realising that you are falling down the rabbit hole.
The installation consists of a selection from a personal archive of screenshotted online camera footage. A collection of empty screens carries the imprints of these images, giving them new materiality, expanding digital into the physical. Worthless displays resemble the moments captured, giving them new meaning, morphed into new tangible artefacts. Different printing techniques have been applied in an attempt to immortalise the transience of the digital sublime.
Come in, involve yourself in the physical flip-side of meaningful scrolling.
In the swarm i found you
Silkscreen screens, imprints of screenshotted online camera footage. What if the purpose of the screen is reversed, it shows just one digital image that is saved from the dark and immortalised.
Installation shot - Steenbergen Stipendium 2022, Nederlands Fotomuseum
Mother of all screens
A video installation where a glass bulb displays a guided tour for treasure hunting, one wherein digital images reveal the rules of the online world. A journey through a virtual world of online surveillance cameras that questions how we deal with today’s flood of images
Installation shot - Steenbergen Stipendium 2022, Nederlands Fotomuseum
Video stills, Mother of all screens
Zero Point Cloud
An image constructed by the computer, a code of pixels transformed into an object that extends beyond the flat plane. Is this the future of the image, a depth map expressed on the other side of the screen.
At the other side of the rabbit hole, installation shots
Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Best of Graduates 2022, Galerie Ron Mandos
Video credits, Mayis Rukel