what's your screen time?, installation, 2021
Veronica Spiljak’s installation titled What’s Your Screen Time? (2021) explores a series of mixed-media printed works suspended by wires and influenced by a poem she wrote during the period when many are experiencing online school fatigue, also known as, “pandemic fatigue”. She comments on the constant reliance on glueing our eyes to our screens since we shift to our new second home, logged online.
Microbial organisms and virus types are referenced as the basis of her patterns and in the context of COVID-19. She takes influence from photographs on government websites and university biology labs for the microbial imagery and virus patterns. The warping and distortion of the text embody the word that it is representing. It can be a passing thought or an overflowing anxious feeling. The text is either used as a pattern, by itself or layered. Her projected image onto the installation recollects a pause or a break from the tension and overbearing exhaustion of the suspended imagery.
Spiljak’s work questions how our everyday online presence can cause psychological and physical fatigue and exhaustion in the body. The transparency of the acetate sheets drapes and hangs by a tight thread as our physical bodies are floating through life and online. We are neither here, nor there. But on the internet.
Microbial organisms and virus types are referenced as the basis of her patterns and in the context of COVID-19. She takes influence from photographs on government websites and university biology labs for the microbial imagery and virus patterns. The warping and distortion of the text embody the word that it is representing. It can be a passing thought or an overflowing anxious feeling. The text is either used as a pattern, by itself or layered. Her projected image onto the installation recollects a pause or a break from the tension and overbearing exhaustion of the suspended imagery.
Spiljak’s work questions how our everyday online presence can cause psychological and physical fatigue and exhaustion in the body. The transparency of the acetate sheets drapes and hangs by a tight thread as our physical bodies are floating through life and online. We are neither here, nor there. But on the internet.
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