π #

from the series Panoptic Segmentation
2023, Self-Published Artist book, Handmade, Edition of 25. Riso print, 143 x 81 x 12 mm.

The flip book compiles screenshots, from my personal image reel; it makes them public in a gesture that resists the fleeting nature of sensitive content when within an internet-based media environment. It takes the form of a seamless narrative, that accounts for multiple readings. Having endured severe oppression throughout my life, I developed an ability to intuit when content is prone to be censored. These screenshots are fragments, information records that may otherwise be blocked and disappear. Part of a silent wide-spread communal resistance, these screenshots belong to everyone; they strive to become collective memory, denounce a collective amnesia.

In the book, the traditional Japanese binding stitching was altered as to have open edges; this makes it possible to read π from different directions. Directionality in π translates as dimensionality, where different planes add depth to the information showcased. Vertically, a continuous flow of screenshots proves hard to decode; horizontally, a passage of time sheds light into a historically informed understanding of events. Akin to the periodical nature of the mathematical constant π, the book suggests a kind of circularity; it fosters a continuous cycle that aims to convey unity and fraternity among us.

π, Documentation video.

π, 2023.

π, Installation View at QWERTY, Solo Exhibition at Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Finland, 2023
image credit: Milla Talassalo / Hippolyte