- Matthew Lawson Garrett
Artists: Tiffany Sia, Kobby Adi, Jackie Karuti
The Appearance of Distance features artists who are distinctly attuned to the way that ideas of distance have changed in the accelerated media environment of the 21st century, anticipating how a disorientation of distance prescribes the way we see and interpret images of place. Works by artists Tiffany Sia, Kobby Adi, and Jackie Karuti respond to today’s media environment by introducing frictions, revealing the material vectors through which images circulate and how our relationship with distance itself is warped by this circulation.
This disorientation reflects how images have become unmoored from their contexts in today’s accelerated media environment, where a single image can fracture and arrive at multiple locations simultaneously, compressing spatial and temporal separation and erasing the resistance once afforded by slowness. In response, artists are engaging with this new shape of distance, attending to what goes unseen in images and what histories are flattened through this circulation.
The Appearance of Distance is accompanied by an eponymous publication featuring a conversation between artist Tiffany Sia and writer Ed Halter.
