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The last time I was in Tanya’s studio, she read the following quote from Guy Debord’s 1967 canonical work, “Society of the Spectacle,” to me: “The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes images.” Nearly 60 years later, with social media having wrapped its tentacles around every part of the world, it’s safe to say images now dominate our daily lives. We have come to define ourselves through manufactured goods, which weave seamlessly between tactile and symbolic forms. Images can be many things — a snapshot of lucky rabbit’s foot keychains on eBay, an attempt to graph movement over time, a now-discontinued high-end brand of door hardware, or a relentless flow of manipulated language and objects.
Display structures can also morph objects into images by isolating them from everyday life. A museological specimen becomes an image in the same way a Temu ad does: We can see it, but we cannot feel it. And Temu’s primary tagline, “Shop like a billionaire,” perfectly…
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The last time I was in Tanya’s studio, she read the following quote from Guy Debord’s 1967 canonical work, “Society of the Spectacle,” to me: “The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes images.” Nearly 60 years later, with social media having wrapped its tentacles around every part of the world, it’s safe to say images now dominate our daily lives. We have come to define ourselves through manufactured goods, which weave seamlessly between tactile and symbolic forms. Images can be many things — a snapshot of lucky rabbit’s foot keychains on eBay, an attempt to graph movement over time, a now-discontinued high-end brand of door hardware, or a relentless flow of manipulated language and objects.
Display structures can also morph objects into images by isolating them from everyday life. A museological specimen becomes an image in the same way a Temu ad does: We can see it, but we cannot feel it. And Temu’s primary tagline, “Shop like a billionaire,” perfectly…
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