DATE:
Dec. 2nd, 2017 ~ Jan. 2nd, 2018
LOCATION:
Lianzhou, Guangdong
Work “PeeP Stream Training Camp” Paticipate in the THEMATIC at in Liang Zhou Foto Festival.
Your Selfie Stick (and You)
Sandra Maunac
We live in a digital culture that has completely transformed our visual habits. We witness and participate in the mass use of the “me” – previously reserved to but a few – because this staging is the only way to prevail in this world of visual competitiveness. However, when faced with this overexposure of images, we should ask ourselves where the creator of images is positioned.
Previously, the photographer went out to capture reality in his surroundings; nowadays, many decide to dive into the network and, from therein, build their documentary fictions. This fertile and seemingly inexhaustible mesh, as well as being accessible to all, is another instrument that allows us to make visible certain situations. The difference resides in the degree of manipulation of those elements taken from Internet, in a different order than the established one. Small disruptions, slight signs and gaps, allow us to denounce certain positioning and encourage questions, although those same disruptions are warning signs that the lines have been completely erased, that there is no private and public anymore, no true or false; everything is part of the whole.
In this era of democratization of images, social networks and their power to communicate are playing an essential role. The presence of platforms such as Facebook and Instagram has not only transformed our method of communicating, but has also propelled the possibility of modifying the imaginary that we have as regards a whole continent or a whole country. These are tools available to any and everyone, with no distinctions as regards gender, race, social or cultural standing. And that allow us to open doors, give voices and, even more importantly, empower.
展期：
2017年12月2日至2018年1月2日
地点：
广东连州
你的自拍杆（与你）
桑德拉·冒纳克
数字文化已经完全改变了我们的视觉习惯。过去作为少数特权阶级专属的——对“我”的保存与展示——早已被大众化，我们目击了一切并共同参与其中，在这竞争激烈的视觉世界中，唯有如此才能突围。然而，当面对因此而过度泛滥的图像时，我们应自问作为图像的创造者在现今世界如何定位。
在过去，摄影师们走向外界，捕捉环绕着他们的真实；如今，人们选择潜入互联网，构建虚实相结的世界。作为另一种实现视觉化的工具，互联网提供了丰富且似乎源源不绝的资源，可被所有人轻易寻取，却遵守着与真实世界中元素截然不同的守则，在更大程度上被操纵。我们着眼于两者间所存在的细小干扰、轻微迹象和差别，被允许怀疑与提出疑问，却忽略这些干扰本身也是一种警告，警告我们那界线已被完全抹掉，不再有私人和公众之分，不再有真实或虚假之分；一切成为整体的一部分，合而为一。
在这个图像民主化的时代，社交网络及其传播的力量正在发挥着至关重要的作用。各类社交网络平台的存在不仅改变了我们的沟通方式，同时也推动了我们对整个世界或某个国家的想象的可能性。这些工具被所有人获取，不分性别、种族、社会或文化地位，我们因此更轻易地敞开大门、发出声音，更重要的，被赋予更多的权力。
