XIN QING
Through the Mechanical Eyes: All I Do is Watching (2024)
Inspired by the Post-Internet Art Movement, this work aims to develop work that critically engages with the visual narratives of the present and creates work that captures the tension between the surveillance eye of the machine and the human impulse to find the meaning of their own identity.
In this work, I switched the roles with Home Security Camera. And then I exist in the digital world as a mechanical eye. In the digital world, I will be monitoring all kinds of big data and electronics such as computers as a monitor.
My work includes highly saturated colours and potentially creepy objects and background sounds to bring the viewer a sense of discomfort and oppression of being under surveillance.