Biennale Arte 2024
Exhibition Overview
1. LED Screen
2. Organ
3. Red Polished (Glitch) Ware
4. Tyre Track
5. On the Right to be Forgotten, Part I:
Wayback Machine to Sun City
6. Beacons and Pillars
7. AVRION PROIN EN NA DEIS /
TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL SEE
8. I stay oriented towards you, weak as you make me
9. Crossover Frequency Spectrum
10. Despite our severed connection,
11. قد تملكون القناديل لكن الضوء لنا الحلقة الثانية: كحل الليل /
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light, Episode Two: Eyeshadow Dark as Night
12. Gaming Tower
Vigil Workspace
Publication
1. LED Screen
2. Organ
3. Red Polished (Glitch) Ware
4. Tyre Track
5. On the Right to be Forgotten, Part I:
Wayback Machine to Sun City
6. Beacons and Pillars
7. AVRION PROIN EN NA DEIS /
TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL SEE
8. I stay oriented towards you, weak as you make me
9. Crossover Frequency Spectrum
10. Despite our severed connection,
11. قد تملكون القناديل لكن الضوء لنا الحلقة الثانية: كحل الليل /
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light, Episode Two: Eyeshadow Dark as Night
12. Gaming Tower
Vigil Workspace
Publication
Forever Informed
Led screen, 64cm x 96cm, single channel video, 34’’.
Photography by Ugo Carmeni 2024
With the front of the Cyprus pavilion taking on the guise of an agency working under the banner Forever Informed, an LED display screen was fitted
onto the building’s façade as a ‘silent seller’ of sorts, luring in visitors and
casting a reflection of light on the surface of the canal once the sun has set.
Since the exhibition’s opening, the screen has featured fragmented scenes from a 2019 Forbes documentary with footage granted by “exclusive access to spy-tech dealer Tal Dilian and his $3.5 million to $9 million van, which he claims can intercept WhatsApp messages and spy on people’s locations.” The exhibition title takes its cue from the opening sentence of that same article, serving as an entry point into the histories of transmission and interference that render Cyprus a ‘quiet thoroughfare’ for clandestine operations and intelligence interception on a global scale.
Since the exhibition’s opening, the screen has featured fragmented scenes from a 2019 Forbes documentary with footage granted by “exclusive access to spy-tech dealer Tal Dilian and his $3.5 million to $9 million van, which he claims can intercept WhatsApp messages and spy on people’s locations.” The exhibition title takes its cue from the opening sentence of that same article, serving as an entry point into the histories of transmission and interference that render Cyprus a ‘quiet thoroughfare’ for clandestine operations and intelligence interception on a global scale.