Surveillance as Imagination
What happens to an image once it is separated from its claim to truth?
This question quietly underpins Sara Sahores’ latest series of compelling screenprints. Typically known for her polaroid cityscapes, these begin not with a camera in the artist’s hand, but with livestream surveillance feeds scattered across the globe.
The Impossible Places is a photographic series made from live webcam screenshots – airports, highways, an erupting volcano glimpsed from the other side of the planet – but...
This question quietly underpins Sara Sahores’ latest series of compelling screenprints. Typically known for her polaroid cityscapes, these begin not with a camera in the artist’s hand, but with livestream surveillance feeds scattered across the globe.
The Impossible Places is a photographic series made from live webcam screenshots – airports, highways, an erupting volcano glimpsed from the other side of the planet – but...