#JWIITMTESDSA? (Just what is it that makes today’s exhibitions so different, so appealing?)
2015 – 2018
Mixed-media installation.
Single-channel digital video HD; color; sound; 16:9.
24’23”.
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Between 2011 and 2015, I compiled a database of more than 2,500 photographs of international exhibitions, gathered from art magazine blogs, gallery websites, and social media. Through this visual analysis, I identified 21 recurring categories—motifs, materials, and modes of display—including plants, monoliths, crumpled objects on the floor, and square screens, revealing a certain degree of aesthetic standardization.
This collection became the starting point for a series of interviews with thirty-six cultural agents—artists, curators, critics, gallerists, art historians, among others—who were asked about the power dynamics surrounding digital technologies and their impact on contemporary artistic production. Is there truly a democratization? Who controls these tools of legitimization? What role do institutions play?
This collection became the starting point for a series of interviews with thirty-six cultural agents—artists, curators, critics, gallerists, art historians, among others—who were asked about the power dynamics surrounding digital technologies and their impact on contemporary artistic production. Is there truly a democratization? Who controls these tools of legitimization? What role do institutions play?
Credits:
General installation views and details of the exhibition Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) (Tallinn, 2017).
Images: Paul Kuimet.
Video stills.
General installation views and details of the exhibition Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) (Tallinn, 2017).
Images: Paul Kuimet.
Video stills.