That includes works by Morag Keil, David Moser, SoiL Thornton, Phung-Tien Phan, Josiane M.H. Pozi, and Mona Varichon, the exhibition explores the pervasive affect of screen- based mostly applied sciences on our every day lives, the place personal and public grow to be more and more enmeshed. Borrowed from the time period “rushes,” utilized in movie and video manufacturing to explain unedited footage, the exhibition title displays the artists’ curiosity within the immediacy of recording, screening and broadcasting inherent to quotidian shopper electronics.
Drawing a up to date parallel to video artwork of the late Eighties and early ‘90s—produced earlier than the rise of the web, and engaged with tv as a mass medium for the transmission of informa- tion, ideologies, and popular culture—the works assembled in “Rushes” centre on transportable units which have grow to be integral to the viewing, recording, and sharing of information and transferring photos. At a time when the digital sphere is more and more related to misinformation, surveillance and reactionary politics, “Rushes” explores a heightened consciousness of those shifts underpinning immediately’s socio-political land- scape.
Somewhat than trying to doc lived expertise, the works on show look at, usually with a sardonic edge, how modern media fragments and reframes it. Advert-hoc smartphone and spy cam recordings, stay streams, and located footage create an phantasm of unmediated witnessing, whereas resisting the excellence between what’s staged and what’s actual.
The artists introduced work with supplies which are cheap, accessible, and embedded in on a regular basis life. They share an aesthetic of the mundane, one which resists monumentality, both by sidestepping or subverting its options. New and current works—some reconfi- gured particularly for the exhibition—inhabit the constructing’s areas, upsetting moments of friction as they brush towards its advanced, charged structure steeped in Germany’s fascist historical past.
The works on view are attuned to the size of the human physique, evidenced by its traces, from arms greedy objects to human- sized interfaces, and units marked by the imprint of contact. Rushes uncovers methods of reclaiming and reimagining the applied sciences that construction our every day lives, slightly than merely being formed by them.
Collaborating artists:
Morag Keil, David Moser, Phung-Tien Phan, Josiane M.H. Pozi, SoiL Thornton, Mona Varichon
at Fluentum, Berlin
till July 26, 2025
