ACTUAL DATA
The installation features more than forty smartphones, each serving as a vessel for a two-year archive of the artist’s self-shot intimate imagery. These fragments—short video clips and photographs originally transmitted via social media platforms—are addressed to recipients who remain perpetually anonymous to the spectator. Through the presentation of one-sided dialogues, AR filters, and ephemeral animations, the work gradually synthesizes a virtual silhouette of these unseen "others."
actual data interrogates the friction between digital and analog communication, manifesting the materialization of data as a radical reclamation of female sexuality. Drawing on Sandy Stone’s “Split Subjects, Not Atoms,” the imagery functions as a visual form of data compression, investigating the transition of private, person-to-person exchanges into the physical realm. By fixating these fleeting interactions within the gallery space, the work robs them of their perceived ephemerality, forcing a confrontation with the ethics of data handling and the porous boundaries between the real, the actual, and the virtual.
The installation features more than forty smartphones, each serving as a vessel for a two-year archive of the artist’s self-shot intimate imagery. These fragments—short video clips and photographs originally transmitted via social media platforms—are addressed to recipients who remain perpetually anonymous to the spectator. Through the presentation of one-sided dialogues, AR filters, and ephemeral animations, the work gradually synthesizes a virtual silhouette of these unseen "others."
actual data interrogates the friction between digital and analog communication, manifesting the materialization of data as a radical reclamation of female sexuality. Drawing on Sandy Stone’s “Split Subjects, Not Atoms,” the imagery functions as a visual form of data compression, investigating the transition of private, person-to-person exchanges into the physical realm. By fixating these fleeting interactions within the gallery space, the work robs them of their perceived ephemerality, forcing a confrontation with the ethics of data handling and the porous boundaries between the real, the actual, and the virtual.