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KANTUTA QUIROS & ALIOCHA IMHOff - Overlapping Biennial

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HARM VAN DEN DORPEL<br />

În „Ethereal Others”, Harm van den Dorpel alcătuieşte o arhivă de portrete anonime, surprinse prin intermediul unui alt site interfaţă,<br />

Ethereal Self. O dată conectat la acesta din urmă şi prins în fascinaţia pentru imaginea cristalină şi înşelatoare a unei prisme de<br />

diamant, internautul fie ignoră din automatism de „utilizator” pericolul de a fi văzut de alţi oameni, fie consimte în ciuda avertismentelor<br />

să-şi dezvăluie chipul prin intermediul webcam-ului personal. Îşi lasă jos garda de securitate vizuală; devine obiect de privit şi<br />

încetează să mai deţină controlul asupra limitelor propriei expuneri. Capturate şi stocate în marea bază de chipuri, aflată undeva pe<br />

graniţa dintre permis şi intruziune clandestină, lucrarea lui van den Dorpel încearcă să tematizeze prin hacktivism subtil modul în<br />

care ne oferim privirilor altora.<br />

Mica Gherghescu<br />

“Ethereal Others” (2010)<br />

video installation<br />

courtesy of the artist<br />

With “Ethereal Others”, Harm van den Dorpel puts together an archive made entirely of anonymous portraits, taken through<br />

the Ethereal Self interface website. Once connected to the latter and fascinated by the crystalline, alluring diamond prism,<br />

the user either automatically ignores the danger of being seen by other people or, despite warnings, agrees to unveil his face<br />

in front of his/her personal webcam. He lets his visual security guard down. He becomes object to be seen, thus giving up<br />

the full control over the limits of his own exposure. Captured and stocked in the comprehensive portrait-base, somewhere<br />

in-between permission and clandestine intrusion, van den Dorpel’s work tries to bring forth by subtle hacktivism the way we<br />

show ourselves to the Other.<br />

Mica Gherghescu<br />

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