Sian Joannidis
The threat of being watched is all that’s needed for us to alter our behaviours, from placing a sticker over our webcams, to abstaining from premarital sex so as not to be condemned to an eternity of hellfire. Our sense of comfort derived from privacy, even when we are alone, may in fact be misguided. No matter how banal, be it God, Big Brother, or a twelve year old who’s got a knack for computers, watching and being watched is constant, a kind of Orwellian/Kafkaesque hybrid nightmare. My aim for this work is to demonstrate the absurdity of all this, the way we can find ourselves invading someone else's privacy even when we're not looking to do so, and how we come to the realisation that this could just as easily be done to ourselves. My work is a looped playback of three separate rotoscoped animations consisting of around 200 separate digital paintings, give or take.
The Police- Every Breath You Take (1983), 2020
Rotoscoped animation
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