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Aram Bartholl

©Friso Gentsch

He puts socially relevant topics such as surveillance, data security and technology dependency up for discussion by translating the gaps, contradictions and absurdities of our everyday digital lives into spatial settings. On the one hand, this results in sometimes grotesque confrontations with his own ignorance of a globally active platform capitalism; on the other, he also uses the potential of public space to renegotiate network activities as political forms of participation on an analog level. In this way, Aram Bartholl's works initiate a performative process that enables individual action to be understood again within a collective and self-determined network discourse. Formally and conceptually, he draws on the aesthetics, codes and communication patterns used by users on YouTube, Instagram or in video games in his artistic works. The targeted contextualization visualizes the logics of the Internet and at the same time subverts them on the basis of their own exploitation strategies.

Wesel

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Wesel von Amina Falah

A slender tree in the forest, with a white ribbon tied around its trunk. Sunlight filters through the leaves.

© Amina Falah

A large cylindrical industrial tank behind a chain-link fence. A red container stands in the foreground.

© Amina Falah

A turquoise telescope labeled "Galaxy" on a bridge in Wesel, overlooking the Rhine, surrounded by love locks.

© Amina Falah

An indoor courtyard with a koi pond, overshadowed by a large green plant. The water reflects the building's glass ceiling.

© Amina Falah

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Amina Falah

Amina Falah is a designer and photographer. Her work sheds light on everyday life and the stories of the people around her, with a focus on social issues.

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