Els Opsomer
On Images: Between Distance and Intimacy, Beyond the Desire for Clarity
Media accelerates, screens become worlds, while the attention economy screams louder. The words ‘doomscrolling’ and ‘image oversaturation’ are running the show in our algorithm-driven spheres. What to do with all this information? With all the possible and impossible stimuli and levels of violence? We are continuously confronted with razor-sharp images of suffering: dying, starving humans and more-than-human beings. The genocide in Palestine is unfolding before our eyes, documented throu (…)
