PASSAGE À DÉCOUVERT 2019

Graduating master’s student in visual and media arts (MFA), UQAM
March 8 - April 13, 2019

Opening: Thursday, March 7, 5:30 p.m.

Our personal information is now disseminated on the Internet, on social networks and in databases, and across borders. Our dependence on new technologies is resulting in the disappearance of our private sphere. The traces we leave on the Internet offer direct access to our most intimate thoughts. 5Ws is an attempt to reveal these traces from a digital archive containing the Internet queries and browsing history of more than half a million Americans. This data was recorded in 2016 without the users' knowledge and was anonymized before being published for research. The exhibition assembles a corpus of these queries encompassing personal realities. Both serious and frivolous, they bear witness to social issues and reflect the concerns of American society. By setting up a continuous play between past and present, individual and collective, Nans Bortuzzo raises broader questions on today’s America.