Anything you say can and will be used against you I
Jarik Jongman
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Date:2019 -
Style:Neo-Figurative Art -
Genre:figurative -
Media:oil -
Dimensions:80 x 80 cm
Anything you say can and will be used against you I
Jarik Jongman
A work from his most recent show in Amsterdam, which consisted of paintings about waiting rooms, data centers and film sets, serving as a stage for ideas about reality and human behaviour in the ‘post truth’ society. More than ever, ‘truth’ seems to have become a fluid concept. Furthermore, the paradoxical situation has arisen, wherein the abundance of information available is merely contributing to our insecurity.
With imagery borrowed from New York crime photographer Weegee, the paintings of people hiding their face (‘ Anything you say can and will be used against you’) refer, among other things, to issues of privacy in the age of the internet and to the fact that people are nowadays suing Google successfully, in order to be removed from their search engine history.
