1 night in Paris
2024
laser-engraving on marble, screenshots, server rack
89 x 63 x 30 cm
exhibition
night of uncertainty, group show, max goelitz, Munich, 2024

A laser-engraved marble slab mounted on a server rack bears screenshots of the intimate images of Paris Hilton that were released without her consent in 2003. The work examines the ambivalence between victimization and appropriation: public exposure simultaneously became the condition for a new form of media and economic agency. By removing the screenshots from their digital circulation and engraving them into marble, the work preserves both the violence of their publication and the contradictions of their subsequent transformation. The server rack points to the infrastructures that store, reproduce, and enable the circulation of intimate images in the first place.



[photo]
Dirk Tacke