Protected Privacy - Protect Yourself!
In 2014 I started my portrait series “Protected Privacy – Protect Yourself!”.
The origin of my series was how young people deal with today’s media. As “digital natives”, their use of the information possibilities offered by the Internet and social networks comes easily and natural to them. At the same time, through the use of social media, information is also being fed with uncontrollable permanence to this media. The granting of information secures one`s own participation.
My work plays with the direct opposite: The faces of the children are suppressed, obscured and hidden, which is unexpected and leads to some irritation. Due to a reduction and a large-sized presentation (70 cm x 100 cm) the portraits receive a very strong, almost sculptural presence although a lot of "information" is hidden.
Nevertheless the analogue, haptic image becomes static and significant whilst the fleetingly digital image posted to the social media gets uncontrollable lost in the Internet....
The origin of my series was how young people deal with today’s media. As “digital natives”, their use of the information possibilities offered by the Internet and social networks comes easily and natural to them. At the same time, through the use of social media, information is also being fed with uncontrollable permanence to this media. The granting of information secures one`s own participation.
My work plays with the direct opposite: The faces of the children are suppressed, obscured and hidden, which is unexpected and leads to some irritation. Due to a reduction and a large-sized presentation (70 cm x 100 cm) the portraits receive a very strong, almost sculptural presence although a lot of "information" is hidden.
Nevertheless the analogue, haptic image becomes static and significant whilst the fleetingly digital image posted to the social media gets uncontrollable lost in the Internet....