You’ve Got A Curious Eye dives into the uneasy friction between human intent, memory, and the machinery of observation. Set in a city where an estimated 11.2 cameras watch every thousand residents, the exhibition tackles surveillance not as a dark futuristic force, but as an everyday backdrop to be hijacked. Porcelain artefacts by Berlin pairing JÜNGERKÜHN reproduce uncanny, fictional surveillance stills from a new video work, treating the camera as a mindless, subservient tool while letting the material itself respond.
Running parallel to this mechanical gaze is the intimate, nostalgic eye of painter Philip Pusch. Reimagining analogue snapshots taken by his grandfather, Pusch paints himself as a child from a third-person perspective and frames surveillance as an act of pure adoration. These layered, painterly vignettes blur the line between inherited memory and personal truth, questioning how reliably nostalgia can reconstruct the past.
Writer Milly Burroughs writes - “Processes of image-making carve out spaces in which reality can be rewritten. The works presented within You’ve Got A Curious Eye speak to the tension between truth and interpretation, each emerging from a collaboration between human and machine. The curious eye is one that seeks to see all, knowing it can never see everything.”
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