M for Stalking installation
The advent of social networking sites in recent years has created a virtual sphere in
which society immerses itself in observing and being observed by its own constituents.
We spy on each other’s activities, friend lists, and surf through snapshot photo galleries, measuring ourselves against others to construct our own self-worth.
Privacy is slowly relinquished. Our life, as we decide to share it online, becomes public property.
And, as a consequence, by scouring the net and collecting every single image of M
(an ex-boyfriend) that I could find by infiltrating his network, M for Stalking denounces this collective conscious awareness of a ‘legalized’, openly acknowledged form of
Web-Stalking.
M for Stalking was exhibited as part of a collective show of 40 international artists,
The Affluenza Exhibition, Clerkenwell, London, March 2009.
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