In the digital age where the Self is fragmented and reproduced in a multiplicity of channels through which our personal data is commodified and fictitious but chillingly plausible images circulate, individual identity seems a more fragile entity than ever, all the images we consume are hopelessly mired in the terrain of ambiguity and we lose control of how we are viewed.
It has been demonstrated that the promised immediate window to the world provided by cyberspace with new technologies that supposedly transcend human action, such as Artificial Intelligence, is still traversed by biases that we have yet to eradicate: the colonial, the patriarchal and the gendered. Looking is not an innocent act but a mechanics of interpretation determined by the processes of social and cultural codification that govern our unconscious and therefore, whoever has the power to direct the gaze has the power to direct thought.
In ‘Confronting the...gaze’, Alice Marcelino, Astrid González and Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf present an artistic practice that combines photography, intervened photography and video in order to take hold of a form of representation that makes use of the body itself to generate images that confront the spectator in order to reveal these perverse dynamics of the gaze and destabilise the hegemonic discourses of race and gender.
Entrada actualizada el el 17 abr de 2024
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