HET HEM - 2020
Morgane de Klerk
2020
HEY DEVICE, SHOW ME PRIVACY
Morgane de Klerk’s (Lisieux, France, 1987) Hey device, show me privacy investigates privacy and surveillance technologies in the age of the smartphone: the increasing invisibility and dematerialization of surveillance, and how to position oneself against that as a maker of objects. De Klerk created a series of 9 aluminum pieces that serve as tokens of surveillance rather than having any actual function. They serve as decorative pieces that look like iPhones crawling up the pocket, surrounding the body; like shadows of the real thing. During the exhibition at Het Hem, De Klerk presents an interactive service where audiences can have free clay replicas made of their smartphones.