Lapsus Lumen · Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer presents his seventh solo exhibition at bitforms gallery. The exhibition features seven works — four of which are premieres — that subvert computerized surveillance to construct playful, counterintuitive, and often disorienting experiences. Repurposing technologies such as one-way mirrors, X-ray scanners, facial recognition, tracking systems, and fingerprinting, Lozano-Hemmer transforms these tools of control into platforms for connection. The exhibition includes External Interior (2015), a suspended inside-out disco ball made of 1,600 one-way mirrors on transparent acrylic; Performance Review (2013), photographic C-prints composed of thousands of fingerprints gathered via surveillance equipment; Airborne 6 (2015), an interactive installation animating excerpts from Prigogine's text; 1984×1984 (2014), an interactive display using Google Street View imagery; Please Empty Your Pockets (2010), a conveyor belt scanner that accumulates up to 600,000 projected objects; and Redundant Assembly (2015), a nine-perspective computerized mirror portrait using face recognition algorithms. Lozano-Hemmer's practice draws on the Latin American experimental art lineage including Minujín, Felguérez, Kosice, and others, positioning surveillance technologies within a framework of participation and play.

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