A solo show I had with Stand Alone Gallery in New York City.
We live in a world heavily saturated by a multi-faceted media mechanism. The nuances of daily life are digitally enhanced, broadcast and eagerly gobbled up by a vast network of patrons seeking information with little regard for content. In this mode of progressively enhanced perception there is a distinct shift from awareness to a hyper-awareness, which feeds with an ever increasing speed exclusively on a relatively banal non-reality.
The anonymity of digital voyeurism has replaced the individual. Media’s role has mutated into a completely assertive entity where identity is copied, pasted and pirated. Identity has become something that can be painlessly amputated and live on its own, to be watched, studied and toyed with. It is a commodity, bought and sold by the traders of vast databanks and information. As Marshall McLuhan put it, “When a thing is current, it creates currency.
