GABY DOUNIS

Pixel Fetish

In a world where screens dominate our vision, what do we gaze at as we scroll, browse and flick? Pixel Fetish (2021) explores the reign and dissemination of the digital image today. Found images from internet archives have been converted into a matrix of pixels and reproduced as a labyrinthine pattern, now merely digital residue of the originals.

Glossy, saturated and reminiscent of screens, the works fix the common experience of traversing the internet or virtual wandering upon the painted surface of pixels and desire. With the use of salvaged tree cuttings and titles referencing elements of the natural world, 'Pixel Fetish' oscillates between a sense of the organic and the mechanical, the real and the virtual, perhaps symptomatic of the human experience in the technological age.