Getty images mon amour

Getty images mon amour is an interactive audiovisual space built on the experience of living a double life. I want to engage with the digital environment and images that we consume and how the power structures and systems occupy (also weaponise) our collective imagination and create the narratives. The title echoes Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras, a film about two places and memory next to catastrophe, and points at Getty Images, the agency that owns/sells many images.

Getty images mon amour is an interactive audiovisual space built on the experience of living a double life. The background is made from the 3D images of my daily routes > the city as a fluid space that the viewer scrolls and zooms through. On top of it, tabs and icons keep popping up and opening > news images, screenshots of messages, sounds, and audio messages. The longer you stay and interact, the more the scene gets overloaded. Drawing on Hito Steyerl's concept of “poor images” and Harun Farouki’s notion of “operational images”, I want to engage with the digital environment and images that we consume and how the power structures and systems occupy (also weaponise) our collective imagination and create the narratives. The work is in collaboration with Farzad Taslimi as developer of the project and in dialogue with "See also" by the Ukrainian collective Fantastic Little Splashes, a work that resonated deeply with me. The title echoes Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras, a film about two places and memory next to catastrophe, and points at Getty Images, the agency that owns and sells so many images of war.