PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION “The Skin of the Screen”

Starting from the idea that we live in a permanent simulacrum, the projects developed by the participants/students explore the dissolution of boundaries between the real and the fictitious, between presence and representation, and between lived identity and projected identity. Through cameras, photography, modeling software, and digital tools, each participant constructs their own narrative, questioning how image and information shape contemporary perception.

Simulation, deception, and the instability of reality have infiltrated everyday life, opening cracks in democratic culture and amplifying distrust in what we take to be true. In this context, the computer is no longer just a tool but becomes a testing ground for multiple, reversible, and dispersed identities. The metaphor of the operating system — simultaneous windows, parallel worlds, multiple coexisting “selves” — reflects a decentralized subjectivity capable of inhabiting different spaces at once. If the telescope once expanded the cosmos and the microscope revealed the invisible, today digital technology introduces us to the realm of virtuality and simulation. The electronic screen has become a surface for identity construction, where the subject experiments with new forms of presence, fiction, and self-projection. Real life sometimes appears as just another window among many.

It is within this territory that the notion of “pixelated capitalism” emerges — an economy of attention, image, and data in which human experience is converted into representation, circulation, and consumption. The works presented do not seek to provide closed answers, but rather to raise urgent questions about authorship, memory, the body, truth, and identity in a time saturated with information.

David Infante