Visual inundation may seem like a contemporary phenomenon, but a new show argues that it’s been going on for at least a century
Image proliferation feels like a distinctly modern phenomenon. There is seemingly endless commentary around the ‘flood’, ‘bombardment’ and ‘inundation’ of images we are fed on a daily basis; an issue often attributed to the internet age. It’s true that our fascination with, and unease about, the amount of images in the world has been amplified by the rise of camera phones and social media. But its history goes back a lot further.
“It’s a slightly facetious response,” he adds, wryly. “But it does get us to an interesting problem. And it’s a problem we always think is new … But then you look back, and it’s been here for 100 years.”The term “mass media” was coined in the 1920s, denoting the advent of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines in the wake of the First World War.
From here, Campany divulges, the exhibition “lets loose”, taking viewers on a non-chronological journey through the decades: exploring how the art movements of Dada, Surrealism, Pop, Situationism, Conceptualism and Postmodernism were all, in different ways, horrified and mesmerised by society’s ever-unfurling image supply.
A defining factor of Campany’s curation is the parallels he draws between artists from different time periods. Nakeya Brown’s is a series of pastel-hued still lifes picturing album covers of Black women artists amidst hair products and paraphernalia; the project probes the pressures of Eurocentric beauty standards, and the subversive political implications of Black women ‘going natural’ with their hair.
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