Multidisciplinary installation I Am Online, 2024, textile object with screen, short film (1 min.) and audio, wood, clothing, dimensions width 110 x length 118 x height 262 cm.
The installation consists of a black wooden skeleton over which various items of Pauline's clothing are stretched. The clothing is sewn together criss-cross and sometimes inside out.
The clothing is sewn together criss-cross and sometimes inside out. Consciously chosen imperfection. The good listener notices (the) machine-embroidered texts. The good listener notices (the) machine-embroidered texts.
The front also consists of clothing; parts of jackets and sweaters where the long sleeves are connected to each other. Nevertheless, the viewer cannot enter and looks through the clothing at an intimate setting. This is only for a short time; soon the viewer - in the role of peeping tom - starts to feel uncomfortable. This contains the analogy of hackers who watch online without asking. This film is about becoming more aware of our vulnerability in our online existence, despite the protection of complicated and long passwords. Pauline depicts here, in a figurative sense, the breaking open of the film image. This is to show that there are forces behind the images. After all, whoever has the technology (or the control over it) also has the power over - the presentation of - the truth or manipulation thereof.
The glitches tell us that technology is not sacred, that something can go wrong there too. Partly inspired by the Scraped Paintings by Gerard Richter. He wanted to break open the skin of the painting to show what is behind it. I want to break open the façade of online existence.
Credit film: camerawork - Ivonne Zijp/ visual glitches - Koen Staz / audio Gagi Petrovic / director-producer Pauline Nijenhuis
* The original meaning of the English term 'glitch' means: the unexpected output that is the result of a short-term electronic or software malfunction [source: Wikipedia].
Photo credit this page: photo 1 @foto_frank_official / photo 2 Pauline Nijenhuis
