The name, Drinking salty water does not help, along with the voiceover that guides the visitor throughout the entire exhibition can be taken very literally.
We cannot fight off thirst with salty water, just like we cannot fight the urge of close contact with online communication.
But as I said, it's not necessary to take it literally.
Space connects to how the individual pieces communicate with the viewer.
It creates an environment that allows various means of reading, movement, subjective interpretation, and narration.
I often work with photography but I also like thinking about photography in other media.
I wanted to walk out of photography and connect it to moving pictures. That's how I made these infinite videos with connection to photography.
She transfers our need for intimacy into the digital environment. It got more blurry within the past few months, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Technology promises us that it will make communication easier for us but they often bring out our thirst for attention and our frustrations.
The entire installation grows from the floor, which is an enlarged smudgy screen.
Next, there is a series of these infinite videos that refer more to the space behind the screen, the digital world.
Another important layer is sound, which we created together with the curator Jen Kratochvíl.
It refers to the thoughts about intimacy, communication, and the digital world. We liked to experiment with the computer-generated voice.
I think about it as the voice that comes from the digital environment, and that thinks about itself but with the experience of us, the users.
The decision to switch to this technique came from the discourse in modern art.
Examples are works of Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, or countless others who are aware of the ecological footprint, that the technology creates.
Just because something is wireless doesn't mean there's not a giant physical infrastructure behind it, placed somewhere out of our view.
We wanted to make the wires, plugs and other things visible.
They may seem to in contrast with other materials but they are naturally connected.