MECHANISMS OF CARE
23rd - 26th October 2023
Phatic Studios, Malmö, Sweden

Solo exhibition, curated by Liza Shkirando

The exhibition reveals a series of radical and playful art experiments. State institutions and digital systems own the power to dictate the norms of morality to us as human beings and as a society. Systems taking “care” of us can both be seen in the state propaganda and in the online censorship of art. Who controls our minds, bodies and voices?

The first part of the exhibition reveals the process behind an experiment in attempt of finding a dialogue with the algorithms of Instagram censorship and AI that is supposed to protect users. These 'mechanisms of care' were portrayed through the experiments mentioned above as well as documentation of the Instagram censorship of my paintings in retrospect, augmented by projection mappings.

The second piece of the exhibition is a video art piece 'Spiritual staples' produced together with FlickerFuckers. It is a metaphor of the outrageous state violence behind the propaganda of ‘traditional values’ in Russia where Liza was born.