Down to Overload Image

An installation view of a video projection mapping on receipt scrolls. It explores the overabundance of images and our obsessive image consumptions. We search, view, and save images in endless scrolls. Our obsession for image consumption is as much as for productivity in a Capitalistic society. But when we pause out from the screen, we realize our hands are empty, and time is trimmed out. What if we issue a receipt for our image consumption? The installation uses receipts metaphorically as the trace of consumption. Receipt papers are clipped on boards like in restaurants and flow down to the ground as if the receipt is being printed. Terms and conditions are printed on the back of the receipts. The video is composed of jumbled images of screen recording showing scrolling images. Mapped onto the receipts, video is trimmed and shows fragmented images. 

The work interweaves inspirations from Hito Steyerl’s “groundless free fall” and my personal experience of feeling dizzy from image scrollings. I search images for work and scroll social media for spare time. I pause conversations to find perfect memes. Likewise, we are so busy and submerged. Investigating this obsession for image consumption, I first connected it to a running horse on a taximeter. The faster taxi runs, the faster horse runs and the price goes up. While the speed gave me guilty pleasure, it got unpleasant when it exceeded a point. Similarly, we consume data to load images faster. But we can only enjoy within our capabilities. How far can we consume in obsession? The work categorized endless image scroll activities, recorded screens, and jumbled them as we jump from screen to screen. Film leader roll is overlayed to add extra speed and burns, but also to convey that we consume a stream of images instead of individuals. Receipt scrolls, used as metaphors, are installed in repetition with the same distances. In distance, it also looks like a paper shredder.