Viktoria Binschtok
«Globen/Globes»

«Globes» deals with publicly-accessible image material retrieved from private origins in the Internet. Virtual auction houses in particular offer such a pictorial genre. The images presented here, showing objects from almost every area of life, form a kind of pictorial encyclopedia of the objects of our time. Based on the seller’s photographs, they allow us a glimpse into private milieus, undermining in this way the anonymity of the seller who uses a pseudonym. Typing in the term for a search filters out in seconds those images linked with the entered term. For her work, Binschtok sought every available image connected with the term «Globe». Only under closer inspection – when the pixels become visible – do the analog photographs divulge their digital origins. «Globes» also includes twenty-five sealed, postal packets addressed to the artist, some of which contain the depicted globes she already put up for auction online.