SURVEILLANCE

SURVEILLANCE is an artistic exploration of the entangled relations between mass surveillance, artificial intelligence, and global power structures. The works draw on pivotal historical moments – from war drone footage and satellite imagery to the revelations of Wikileaks – while addressing both the visible and concealed surveillance systems embedded in everyday life. Together, they provoke a visual discourse on the profound implications of surveillance for privacy, agency, and social order.

Spherical forms allude to camera lenses - and their zooming gaze - used by governments and institutions to exercise control, while blurred and elusive shapes evoke our limited ability to comprehend the circulation of our data and the ways in which it shapes perception through manipulation and propaganda.

A fine grid of dots printed on transparent Plexiglas suggest the vast archives of information stored without our consent on corporate servers. Layered Plexiglas panels generate shifting depths of field, the resulting moiré effects introduce a rhythm of perpetual change, an optical restlessness that mirrors the accelerating pace of technological development, whereby every new encounter with the artwork can reveal something new.

Through this interplay of material, form, and light, the works integrate the viewer: each shift in perspective alters the image, reminding us that surveillance is never static, but an ongoing process. In this way, SURVEILLANCE stages an encounter that is not only visual but participatory – inviting us, the viewer to consider our own position within the infrastructures of control that govern the present.