Videowall

The daily deluge of images, opinions and slogans, whether ‘fake’ or taken out of context, constantly feeds our endless hunger for more sensation. Trapped in an infinite scroll of advertising, quirky pets, sexy selfies, images of war and political propaganda, the torrent of visuals flattens our individualistic, dopamine-driven bubble into an inhuman indifference to everything that truly matters in our society. All of this contributes to the erosion of concepts such as information and truth, essential building blocks of any democracy.

When people no longer value information or truth because they can no longer tell what is accurate and what is not, doesn’t that open the door to autocratic leadership, intent on restricting individual freedoms as much as possible, as we are seeing in the USA? Education plays a vital role here: raising young people to navigate everything they see on social media with a critical eye.

The daily flood of images is symbolized in Video Wall (3.20m x 3m) by metres upon metres of used videotape, woven into a single tangle of information in which the original content is no longer readable, leaving only a curtain or an illusion of information.