Soft in the Centre

Solo show at Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne

'The digital wasn’t and isn’t immaterial, as Felix Stalder explains in his book Kultur der Digitalität (The Culture of Digitality), published this year. The fleeting impulses of digital communication are based on material global infrastructures; they extend from mines deep under the earth’s surface, where rare-earth metals are extracted, into space, where satellites orbit the earth. As these connections are often inconspicuous in our everyday experiences, they are often ignored – but this doesn’t mean they disappear or become less significant. Digitality historically refers to new possibilities in the organisation and interconnection of different human and non-human actors. This is where Rachel de Joode’s approach overlaps with Stalder’s analysis: the term digitality isn’t limited to digital media, but also appears as a relational model within analogue contexts, and alters the realm of possibility of many materials and actors.' (text by director/curator Nadine Wietlisbach, from the press release)

More about the exhibition here