Images of hypothetical society

Drawing series, Cairo-Egypt (2009)

What I call hypothetical society is a communication of internet-technology, allowing “friends” – know or do not know each other in “real life“ – to have access to their picture profiles.The people who are representing themselves in this picture profiles are mostly aware of their posing, clothing, mimic – while getting photographed – and how they gather. With the idea that these photos will be uploaded later in one of these societies, the privacy becomes public and gets a temporary attention as a projection screen, you can comment or just click the bottom “I like it”, “I don’t like it”.

In this way, the “hypothetical society” gives the surfer the possibility to have a look at a wide range of groups and communities, and the way they act in their own atmosphere.By transferring this photographical images through a projector-machine to drawings based on non-expressive lines and by separating the people from their “real” background to a neutral grey turns the focus of attention. Their individual features and their own concrete surroundings are disappearing as well as their detailed clothing and accessories get reduced. The uploaded screen-picture becomes a drawing on the wall and they get an iconographical locum-function in non-space.