#image

#image performs and amplifies this new sense of relationship; it examines the very real immateriality of images in the circulatory system of the network. This exhibition, for a moment, stops these images’ circulation, allowing them to be seen and touched.

The works on display include prints, sculptures and installation that bring together a number of techno-social concerns that have been central to Lafia’s career as an artist, filmmaker, and information architect—in particular, his interest in how all participants are part of an elaborate program that is as real as it is virtual, reconfiguring our relationship to the world, expression, and ourselves.

Large, sumptuous prints are contrasted with the older material technology of the book, which Lafia has reengineered here as a sculptural object. The photographs and books, including the newly released Image Photograph, are joined by a garden installation in the shape of an inverted pyramid, made of fabric mimicking the filters of the iPhone camera.

A review of the the show, Taking Pictures:On Marc Lafia's #Image for Thought Catalog can be found here.