Decompressed Prism
Salvatore Vitale
As part of the festival Photoforum Pasquart invites the artist Salvatore Vitale. His digital installation Decompressed Prism presents a combination of fictional and documentary elements, video archives, text, sound designs and real data creates an uncertain and mischievous space. Conceived as an experience for the visitor, the work evolves in a playful space and touches on subjects of reflection important to the artist, such as surveillance, empathy, space and body. Decompressed Prism reveals the paradoxes behind the systemic logic of ubiquitous surveillance through automated security tools.
Exploring different uses of control technologies in Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Italy, the artist questions how these technologies shape our relationship to the world and to ourselves as human beings. Salvatore Vitale explores the notion of the body evolving between digitalisation and reality, and the transformation of the latter into a product controlled by technology. Drawing on contemporary philosophical and sociological texts, the artist imagines a different reality in which the public is invited to question the possibility of counter-narratives.
Curator: Jana Johanna Haeckel
Year of production: 2022
