The Wrong Biennale

TILT Platform member, Foteini Vergidou, curates the Greek Pavilion for 4th edition of The Wrong – Digital Art Biennale, titled “Hysterophimia”. 

Everyday we are integrating more and more with the digital world, blurring the lines between what is virtual and what is real. This integration with technology has allowed us to find new ways to augment ourselves and communicate with each other, giving new potential to what we can achieve.

What does it mean to remain human in this digital age and how do we choose to construct our image in the Internet era? In the Hysterophimia Pavilion for The Wrong Digital Art Biennale 2019 – 2020, the idea of one’s image as we perceive it today is being challenged and explored from different perspectives.

The exhibition attempts to examine through a variety of artworks our relation with our self, our self-awareness and our need to leave behind us a legacy, our hysterophimia. As a result, we have the rise of selfie culture and the over-production & over-consumption of images. However, is it still worthy to pursue our hysterophimia today, when everything is being recorded, monitored and stored in Big Data without our control and consent?

Through this exhibition, we also take a look not only on the images we produce and consume, but also on the images created by machines, manifesting their own need for posthumous fame.