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ISSUES is pleased to present Never Forget, Jacob Broms Engblom’s second solo show at the gallery. The exhibition introduces an asynchronous image novel based on the screenplay of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1963). Besides being distributed online, it is here presented as a number of physical photo albums, photographic prints and an offline video.
By colliding Marker’s imagery with the forgettable Avatar franchise and an unforgettable event (as well as several dreamhacks), Never Forget exists in relation to our decaying digital memories and automated subjectivities of our endless spiraling now. A few thousand found images mutated into a pool of half a million synthetic images compressed into a semi-automated fragmented narrative.
Visit www.neverforget.pics for more.
Some works in the exhibition are made in collaboration with Berlin-based artist Alex Valijani.
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JACOB BROMS ENGBLOM (b. 1986 Nynäshamn, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm)
Jacob is an artist and engineer with a practice circulating above and within undocumented phenomena, algorithmic artifacts and anxieties in our digital culture. He received an MFA at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden and an MA and BA of Science in Media Communications at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Exhibitions include The Wrong Biennale, thewrong.org (2023); On AI, Lobe Space, Berlin (2023); The Secret Third Thing, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2023); Jennifee-See Screen Show, Amager Centret, Copenhagen (2023); The Influencing Machine at U-jazdowski, Warsaw, Poland (2022); mondays.cloud at ISSUES, Stockholm (2022); SEART2021 at No Picnic, Stockholm (2021); Observations at 9:16 Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2022); Janey Smith at Arcway Nightlands Connector, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Pattern Extraction at Galleri Mejan, Stockholm (2020), GROUP SHOW with Coyote, Stockholm (2019); Office Space at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (2015) and Xth Biennale de Lyon, Online/Lyon (2009).
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www.neverforget.pics
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SEART Anniversary: 2021, (interview), C-print Journal, 2021
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What Artists Can Learn from YouTube’s ‘Brain Nursery’, Herbert, Martin. Art Review, 08/07/2020
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Online Art: Tedium is the Medium, Chaika, Kyle. Hyperallergic, 28/04/2011
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