Of/By/For The screens
- 2025
This presentation takes a look at screen as both medium, process and metaphor, a site where identities are constructed, translated, and contested. Drawing on the practice of bricolage, I reconstructs materials aggregated from secondary spaces including archives, thrift stores, garage sales, digital platforms, amongst others. These materials are reconfigured and presented in new contexts to show how the idea of self is shaped through transition, familiarity, and memory.
The screen, in this presentation is a portal, a site of transmission, and a metaphor for transition. It functions as a secondary space such as the second-hand shop or the internet, where information, meaning, and identity are transferred, reframed, and commodified. Through this they interrogate the politics of image-making: Who owns the images we consume? How are identities shaped, distorted, or erased in an age of mass digital circulation?
By the extensive use of screens, film, and photography, I ask who/what controls the images we see? How do we make sense of ourselves through what we recognize and remember? And how do those stories change as they travel through space, time, and technology.
