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An Infinite Loop in the Virtual Plaza
Sophia Oppel
Crutch Contemporary
Oct 05 — 27 2019

The glass around you shatters as you glide through this infinite space, like a drone ready to exert a pre-emptive strike. Inhabiting plazas of chrome and marble, clinical, anemic trees shift in a cruel air-conditioned breeze. Vast anesthetic vistas of self, you were a protagonist in an infinitely looping trailer; like an avatar, you became immaterial. Now, this space, supposedly user friendly, intuitive, ever navigable, is a cacophonous maze of wrong-turns.
Sophia Oppel is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher interested in examining digital interfaces and physical architectures as parallel sites of power. Oppel deploys glass, mirror and the screen as a framework to consider the paradoxes of legibility under surveillance capitalism. Oppel received a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto in 2021.

Press:
Placelessness in Parallel
Journal FYI




Installation view.