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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.

Placelessness in Parallel
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.


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