A 137 min. video slideshow of 10,000 photos appropriated from people’s personal computers, without their knowledge. The act of obtaining the images did not involve hacking, but took advantage of a software error.
Installed at HEK, Basel 2012
The projection is always “wrong”, wrongly placed, wrongly rotated and wrongly keystoned, “as if my mom had set it up”.
Installed at Abrons Arts Center, New York 2015
Installed at Mata, Modena 2016
Installed at Random Institute, Zurich 2015
Installed at Diputación Provincial de Huesca, Spain 2014
Installed at Arnolfini, Bristol 2013
Installed at The New School 2013
The photos were most likely not meant to be public, but we will never know for sure. The project intentionally ventures into legal and ethical grey zones and tests boundaries of the public and private, as well as the distribution and perception of personal images.
Installed at Carroll/Fletcher, London 2011
Installed at Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2015