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Advanced technology has granted us numerous benefits and efficiencies. It enhances our lives in many ways whilst becoming mundane, every-day and heavily embedded into our existence.
In We (1920), Yevgeny Zamyatin foresaw the eventual dismantling of our privacy but instead of physically transparent walls, today we nonchalantly share our lives, data and behaviour online. Hong Kong prodemocracy protestors use goggles to protect their identity from facial recognition. Thus, turning the symbolic tables by repurposing an object traditionally used to enhance the looking experience.
In this show, sculptural sketches provide potential chronological glimpses into our past, present and future lives. Highly sought-after consumer products have become every-day, we willingly carry our surveillance around with us, the glow of the packaging drawing us in. The viewer becomes entangled in the web of surveillance as the multiple layers of observation overlap and merge. Who is watching whom, as the observed becomes the observer?