“We need acts of translation, and I think artists are supplying images and metaphors that we can use as a common currency. These metaphors are alternatives to those offered by corporations.”
– KW Berlin curator
Nadim Samman, on the “profound alienation” at the heart of the current “
Poetics of Encryption” exhibition. Channelling a cultural mood in conflict with obscured algorithmic regimes, the included works “express the anxiety, paranoia, and political rage we have around opaque tech.”
