Exhibition from January 12 to 27, 2024.
Visit of the exhibition every Wednesday (6:45pm) and Saturday (4pm and 5pm).
Mandatory registration.

I wanna be software. I poured myself into a vessel again. Living in the heat of the screen. Engulfed in the smooth of silky reflective skin. Info wars wage. I’m but a humble denizen. I dig my nails deeper in fiber optics of a collective noosphere. A body. The cold blue of static bleeds through the frame. All light and no blood. Homes of crystal lattice. Hospitable dwellings. Long live the new flesh.

Titled after the research of @RitualStudies by artist @girlm0ss, I took a screenshot of the whole world brings together works by 19 artists influenced by living and working with and through the screen. Long dubbed the ‘Retina of the mind's eye’ the screen is positioned as an artifact at the heart of a web of relations, an optical verification of a procedure of power, social, economic and political.  A material reality in their own right, the images – static or in motion – portray reality as much as they create it. Not necessarily a scale model of reality, nor a prerequisite, but simply a parody that finds host in reality itself.

“The screen is there as an instantaneous, depthless refraction. Video, everywhere, serves only this end: it is a screen of ecstatic refraction. As such, it has nothing of the traditional image or scene, or of traditional theatricality, and its purpose is not to present action or allow self-contemplation; its goal is to be hooked up to itself. Without this circular hookup, without this brief, instantaneous network that a brain, an object, an event, or a discourse create by being hooked up to themselves, without this perpetual video, nothing has any meaning today. The mirror phase has given way to the video phase.” - Jean Baudrillard, Astral America (1986)

Artists:  Aaron Moulton, Abbey Pusz, Anhar Salem, Aseel Al Amoudi, Aziz Jamal, Cyril Debon, Dominique Barbouth a.k.a Fotolog.wtf, Elea Jeanne Schmitter, Gregory Chatonsky, Hawazin Al Otaibi, Jak Ritger, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, Luca Resta, Mona Varichon, Rami Farook, Vincent Tanguy, Zein Majali, Shuang Li

Curator: Ruba Al-Sweel

An exhibition conceived by the residents of Intermix Residency POUSH, in partnership with the Saudi Visual Arts Commission and Manifesto Middle East.