20:20

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

"The 20:20 project by Igor Samolet represents an overlay network, which consists of the exterior part — a newsfeed — and the interior one — a set of playlists. In the centre of this digital structure two joint opposite-looking faces are positioned, revolving according to the rhythm of the collage. The layers contain visuals from our digital everyday: news feeds screenshots, Snapchat mask filters, Instagram stories, chats, and posts. This project accurately represents the artist’s method — the instrumentalisation of the processes of digital production and consumption and their subsequent utilisation as a primary shaping factor. The content of the collage is the artist’s reaction to the social, civil, historic, or personal circumstances and events, which renders a simple screenshot into a ‘decisive moment’, a new form in photography. Through the act of publishing of the response the artist places himself as an actor of global historic processes. Igor Samolet’s projects represent a contemporary human through the lens of their emotional volatility, expose their vulnerability and incapability to adapt in the eye of the vast digital space and the aggressive universe of new technologies."