Look from a to i. What's the story?


Girls have been seen to wear hoods, as a fashion statement, in the UK, the Netherlands and Norway; where it rains a lot. Besides worn for protection from the rain, the hood signifies an unconventional person: this could be an activist, usually associated with environmental activism, or an anti-fascist. The latter is also seen worn this way, as a political statement, in Greece; where it doesn't rain a lot.


(Following) In my footsteps.


Instructions:

Make steps in the snow. Walk back and forth in your footsteps in the snow.





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"In 1981, the French philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard published his thoughts on the relationship between images and reality, arguing that in contemporary society the image (more specifically signs and symbols) had replaced reality. This process of replacement took place, according to Baudrillard, in a succession of four distinct phases  wherein the image slowly transformed from a faithfull copy or reflection of reality into something completely alienated from reality. In this final stage, the image is a pure 'simulacrum' with no relation to the real world whatsoever - no longer a copy of an 'original' but a sign or symbol with no 'original'". Jordana Moore Sagesse, "Screens, Stereotypes, Subjects". Basquiat, Boom for Real, Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2020, p. 235.

We live by the mode of referendum precisely because there is no longer any referential.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, 1983



 



 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

The pieces are shown in the order I was making them from 2020 until 2024.