Memory

Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Forgetting Spring (March to June 2013), Compressed vinyl print, 75cm x 56cm x 76cm, 2013
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Not In Use, Used laptop and screensaver software, 44cm x 36cm x 12cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Male, 32, Creative director, Tokyo, Japan (March 2013), Internet Cache Portrait series, C-print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing, 90cm x 90cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Female, 33, Gallery owner, Paris, France (March 2013), Internet Cache Portrait series, C-print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing, 90cm x 90cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Female, 32, Speech language pathologist, London, Ontario (March 2013), Internet Cache Portrait series, C-print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing, 90cm x 90cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Male, 42, Artist, Vienna, Austria and St. Moritz, Switzerland (March 2013), Internet Cache Portrait series, C-print face mounted on acrylic, dibond backing, 90cm x 90cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Silhouettes (July 27 to November 4, 2013), 1030g drawing board, 370cm x 202cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
  • Self Portrait (July 27 to November 4, 2013), Internet Cache Portrait series, Vinyl print, 150cm x 1560cm, 2014
Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery
(Courtesy Niklas Belenius Gallery)
  • Since You Were Born, Book, 28cm x 22cm, 2014

Info

Title:Memory
Institution:Niklas Belenius Gallery
Date:January 25 - March 2, 2014
Location:Stockholm, Sweden

Text

In 'Memory', Evan Roth stages a confrontation between human memory and the unconscious of the Internet.

Our technical devices remember much more than we want them to. The computer cache memories register all our movements in digital space. Roth turns these memories inside out and brings forth a manifold of hidden stories. Thereby he is letting us view ourselves with the indifferent eyes of technology.

The exhibition is an archive of an archive, with portraits of various person's daily online activities, a 42 meter long vinyl print with four months of Internet history compressed to a sculpture, laser etchings and the thoughtful little book Since You Were Born, dedicated to the artist's daughter. The book can be read in two opposite ways: as a beautiful story about the relation between a father and his new-born child, and as a reflexion of our intimate relationship with the web.

— Niklas Belenius Gallery