Installation view, ‘Will You Still Love Me: Learning to Love Yourself, It Is The Greatest Gift of All’ (Image courtesy Dawn Light Blackman and Equitable Vitrines)
LOS ANGELES — Artist Jennifer Moon is not the first or the last to experiment with self-surveillance, documenting selfies of her every moment for anyone and no one. Her solo exhibition Will You Still Love Me: Learning to Love Yourself, It Is The Greatest Love of All, an installation at Equitable Vitrines, which is located in the lobby of a drab corporate office building in Koreatown, presents at times problematic evidence of our compliance with selfie culture.
Moon installs six computer monitors inside a glass display case in the building’s lobby. Pasted on the walls of the display case are notes on surveillance culture theory, intermixed with a variety of pop song quotes, and various charts made to look like a middle school experiment. Each monitor displays a different view from a surveillance camera, either of Moon’s home or inside her car. Attached headphones offer viewers an added audio experience of the surveillance.
Read the full review on Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/176057/an-artist-turns-surveillance-into-affection/
