In Pursuit of an Apparition Hands can Miss the Object is a collaborative project with Sarah-Jane Field, 2024. The title is drawn from Vilem Flusser's prophetic 1985 text Into the Universe of Technical Images, which urges artists to creatively play and disrupt the "totalitarian circuitry" of contemporary image culture. Maria Ahmed and Sarah-Jane Field work with and in response to generative images, using collage strategies of fragmentation, mixing and displacement, provoking multiple readings and questions.
Generative images are placed in conversation with pictures from photography's messy history: darkroom mistakes, images for technical instruction, phone snaps, scans, stock images and reproductions ripped from old books. Through the rhythm of this presentation, images push and pull against one another in a performance of control and resistance.
Generative images are placed in conversation with pictures from photography's messy history: darkroom mistakes, images for technical instruction, phone snaps, scans, stock images and reproductions ripped from old books. Through the rhythm of this presentation, images push and pull against one another in a performance of control and resistance.