Video, 137 min, dimension variable.

 

Slideshow of 10.000 photos appropriated from unaware random people’s personal computers. Technically, the act of obtaining the images did not involve any hacking but took advantage of a software glitch.

 

 

Exhibition view, HEK, Basel 2012

 

 

The projection is wrongly positioned and wrongly shaped, “as if my mom had set it up”

 

 

Exhibition view, Abrons Arts Center, New York 2015

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Mata, Modena 2016

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Random Institute, Zurich 2015

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Diputación Provincial de Huesca, Spain 2014

 

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Arnolfini, Bristol 2013

 

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Postmasters Gallery, New York 2014

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Exhibition view, Carroll/Fletcher, London 2011

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibition view, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2015