Hyper-Visibility (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
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New life (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
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Occupy (2025)
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Desire (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
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Against all odds (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
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Interiority (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
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Citizen (After Image) (2025)
Hyper-Visibility
Ink-Jet PrintHypervisibility (2026)
Ink-Jet Prints
Hypervisibility is a series drawn from a reconceptualization of an afterimage of Jeff Wall’s 1996 photo, Citizen. Wall’s photo process fuses photography with storytelling; hence, he uses an atypical composition that creates a sense of uncertainty. Considering how Wall’s photos are crafted images with deliberate composition, lighting, and subject choices, rather than impulsive, casual snapshots (like those of street photography), he intentionally creates ambiguity about the true subject matter. An uncentered composition of a man lying in a park’s grass lawn could depict both an alienation of a body or simply public relaxation. Consisting of 7 photographs, Hypervisibility draws from this intentional ambiguity and focuses on the black body. As a consequence of historical anti-blackness, public perceptions of blackness often fall victim to a pathological view of blackness, stemming from slavery and its aftermath of racism. Blackness is diminished and isolated into this state of irrelevance, or even antagonization, in the facets of social life. In composing black subjects with various stoic public environments, some spacious and some constrained, Hypervisibility aims to reveal these often overlooked perceptions of the black body. In using flash photography, the subjects are highlighted in spaces where social life may be forgotten. In other words, through fusing storytelling and photography, the viewer is left to propose alternative interpretations of the subject, questioning the matter of the subject and their relationship to their environment. The man sitting in the parking garage becomes more than a scene of loitering. The couple in front of the cold architecture of an urban landscape transforms into a new aspect of public life. The ignored is forcibly revealed, or in other words, hypervisible.