Malte Sänger

aggregate

aggregate
2024

exhibition installation
photos: pigment print on recycled metal plaques, 10 in x 14 in
text: inscribed by hand into recycled metal plaques, 10 in x 14 in

'aggregate' consists of texts that were never sent to their addressees, lingering as drafts indefinetely, and of portraits, taken with a self-made infrared camera, of people who unlock their phones using it's facial recognition feature.

The infrared rays that the cell phones emit for this verification process are made visible in the images.

At the heart of this work lies the contrast between a technology that captures humans as data points and the deeply human individual reality of life. Despite seemingly disregarding each other, both realities are intertwined and interdependent.