Mercredi 15 Février 2017 10:43:28 par Chloé Andrianarisoa dans Expositions

Press release - What right do governments, corporations, and individuals have to collect and retain information on your daily communications? What tools – both today and in the past – have been used to monitor your activities? What are the immediate and far-reaching effects? As governments and corporations around the world expand their efforts to track the communications and activities of millions of people, this not only threatens our right to privacy, but also opens the door for information to be collected and used in ways that are repressive, discriminatory, and chill freedom of speech and expression.

Mishka Henner, Nato Storage Annex, Coevorden, Drenthe, 2011, from the series Dutch Landscapes, © Mishka Henner

It is in this context of massive information gathering that Watching You, Watching Me – the 22nd installment of the Open Society Foundations – explores how photography can be both an instrument of surveillance and a tool to expose and challenge its negative impact. In tackling the inherent difficulty of visualizing something that is meant to be both omnipresent and covert, the artists in this exhibition employ a dynamic range of approaches.