[Target]  is an ongoing research project that connects remote surveillance camera footage that was left unchecked, by mistake, from the global control system.


The footage is picked, captured and took out of its original context in order to explore the possibilities of deconstructing what we could call the images of the enemy, getting us closer to how they operate and how we could modify their meanings. 

The images of the world are owned, used and conceived by the empire to generate new notions and devices that can control us. For us to build new weapons of resistance, those images need to be problematized first—then unarmed.

Mistakes can give us hints, that can be used to shape the silhouette of the human being, to understand and trace its devices, to translate its patterns into an intelligible language. It is possible to enter the system where it fails. Piracy, to appropriate the images that are by default used to [target] people —to sell us something, to demonize us, to kill us, to control us. Noise as a path —a trace from where the image is coming from.

Making innovative connections between existent images, taking them out of its original context, helps us to stimulate active thinking and to add new layers on top of the pictures that surround us—and that we cannot erase from the world.

This alternative system can be used whenever it’s necessary to deconstruct the images of the present. The elements can be replaced, can be rearranged with the aim of transforming them into something thinkable. To find new links between them so we can tend to change our status from a passive-target, to an active-target.


[We are still targets]

City Loop, 2018 (installation view). Part of the series [Target]