Sandbags/Texture, Kharkiv
(2015)
- Medium
- ultra-violet inkjet print on aluminium and polyethylene
- Measurements
- 89.2 × 89.6 cm (image) (100.9 × 101.0 cm) (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Edition
- ed. 4/5
- Accession Number
- 2023.191
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2023
© Hito Steyerl, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Hito Steyerl is known for her critique of technocracy across video, essays, lectures, installations and photography. She speculates on the impact of digitisation, technology and globalisation, often looking at the ways images are produced, disseminated and consumed. Sandbags/texture, Kharkiv and Tent/texture III, Kharkiv are photographic prints of fragments of war in the city centre of Kharkiv, Ukraine, following the annexation of Crimea in 2014. To produce these images, Steyerl used an iPhone application that 3D-scanned elements of the city’s landscape, with each image then made through repeated printing using UV technology, building a collaged appearance on the print surface. Steyerl presents the architecture of war and its impact on a cityscape while fragmented imagery reflects the impact of technology and globalisation on how we consume images of conflict.