Ikonen ohne Namen (icons without names)CVII

The series Ikonen ohne Namen is based on mass media images (here Covid-pandemic). Photos of crises and human suffering replacing each other in an endless succession. Seen today, and tomorrow- with the next hype- already pushed to the background again. Situations which continue but don’t have images anymore. Images which seem so clear from a distance but stay so blurred on a closer look as most of the faces have no name. You see their condition but you don’t see them. Floating impressions, shadows of reality, anonymous icons of incidents. My pixels mimic the visual language of digital media. However, where media uses pixelation to either shield or shame I repurpose it as a mode of reference and critique to reflect the anonymity and abstraction imposed by mass media. And moreover: pixels are anonymity but aren’t they as well like the countless facets of our world, the flood of informations from which we have to form the picture of a reality beyond our personal experience?