M for Stalking at the Affluenza Exhibition
print installation, 97 A3 sheets nailed to the wall, inkjet + letterpress
The advent of social networking sites in recent years has created a virtual sphere in which society immerses itself in observing and being observed by its own constituents. Identities are created, fantasized, advertised through messaging and uploaded photography, and shared with friends as well as with an unknown and avid mass audience. We spy on each other’s activities, friend lists, and surf through snapshot photo galleries, measuring ourselves against others to construct our own self-worth.
Privacy is slowly relinquished. Our life, as we decide to share it online, becomes public property.
And, as a consequence, by scouring the net and collecting every single image of M (an ex-boyfriend) that I could find by infiltrating his network, M for Stalking denounces this collective conscious awareness of a ‘legalized’, openly acknowledged form of Web-Stalking.

Exhibited as part of a collective show of 40 international artists at The Affluenza Exhibition, Clerkenwell, London, March 2009.