Sasha Opeiko: pixel / dust

^{Sasha Opeiko. by constant flow all things are thinned, 2022. Found objects, video, media devices, photo prints. Dimensions variable.}

Sasha Opeiko’s research practice explores the breakdown of the digital image (and all other things with it) under capitalism, reflecting on the afterlife of images in a post-capitalist world. At once intricate and restrained, her work is concerned with the ways in which the political is articulated through moving images, and how the digital image, in turn, is both a response to – and the result of – the economic system in which it exists.

pixel / dust brings together a series of works where the pixel, the building block of the digital image, is highlighted front and center, with faulty 3D scans that glitch in real-time, and computer-generated montages of empty spaces and ruins, haunted by absence. These moving-image works are accompanied by decaying household objects, suggesting that there is no escaping the corrosion that capitalism has caused (or perhaps, the corrosion that capitalism has been masking).

At the core of the exhibition is the tension that exists between an object and its reproduction; between what we see and what the camera registers; between the image and the image of the image. The works presented here are burdened by their own three-dimensional reproductions. Deeply flawed yet strangely poetic, these renderings seem to have a life of their own. Though by no means a faithful portrayal of the objects they are meant to capture, these simulated copies are an urgent reminder of the glitches and cracks that plague the world we inhabit.