Hadjithomas and Joreige documented some of these posters that have been distorted over time and the process of redrawing some of the faded faces, exploring issues
around image circulation, availability and marking moments in history.
Not exact matches
Her projects have explored themes
around looking and seeing; the relationship between camera and subject; the
circulation and consumption of
images and the complex nature of photographic representation.
The artist calls into question the economy that has developed
around the
circulation of these
images as internet content, exploring the sinister aspects of this increased visibility, including issues of appropriation and exploitation.
Viola describes pieces like this as «sculpting with time», and explains that the work «concerns the enclosing nature of self -
image and the external
circulation of potentially infinite (and therefore unattainable) states of being all revolving
around the still point of the central self... The entire space becomes an interior for the revelations of a constantly turning mind absorbed with itself.»