The Architecture of Space

MONIKA SZILADI

In Her Own Words

©Monika Sziladi

Series: Wide Receivers
Title: Pledge, 2010
Size: 20"x36"
Medium: Pigment Print
Edition:  5

Price: Contact gallery for pricing

“In Wide Receivers I am interested in how society and human behavior are becoming simultaneously tribalized and atomized amidst the ever increasing noise of mass (over)communication, digital media, and self-broadcasting. My photographs are digital collages constructed from images that I shoot at public relations, networking events and at meet-ups of subcultures that were formed and (or) are operating as a result of social connectivity on the Internet. 

Compositing and cropping the source photos heightens the intragroup dynamics and throws off the viewer's ability to find a primary point-of-view, thus generating an underlying disruption: the participants, while appearing connected within a social network, also appear atomized in a contrived pose or uncertain gesture.”