SALT PRINT SELFIE
Interactive Installation
Tate Britain, 2015
Interactive Installation
Tate Britain, 2015
SALT PRINT SELFIE
Salt print Selfie sees Walter & Zoniel reconfiguring traditional and modern photographic processes in the Tate Britain.
Salt Print Selfie plays with the parallels between the time Salt Printing was invented, in the Victorian era, which resulted in a mass proliferation of imagery and access to it by the public, and the present day creation of the camera-phone and of social media, with its own mass proliferation of the ‘selfie’ and public access to imagery.
The artists created an installation which invited strangers to be led through a process of creation which exposed them in person to elements they would execute with seeming anonymity on social media. From a starting point of being strangers, their journey was woven closer to one another through shared experiences and traditional acts of bonding.
Salt Print Selfie plays with the parallels between the time Salt Printing was invented, in the Victorian era, which resulted in a mass proliferation of imagery and access to it by the public, and the present day creation of the camera-phone and of social media, with its own mass proliferation of the ‘selfie’ and public access to imagery.
The artists created an installation which invited strangers to be led through a process of creation which exposed them in person to elements they would execute with seeming anonymity on social media. From a starting point of being strangers, their journey was woven closer to one another through shared experiences and traditional acts of bonding.