Karolina Adamczak

Film, 00:02:35

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The piece shows a figure observing the viewer through the screen as she lies in bed.  Social media functions as a screen into our most intimate moments. The work questions whether the intimate moments we share online are documentation of those events or is allowing people to enter our private lives online a way to compensate for the lack of connection we feel in real life. It poses the idea that social media, while connecting us to others, might simultaneously leave us feeling more distant and fragmented, as we blur the lines between genuine connection and the performance of self. 

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The work was included in the online exhibition Portals organised by Livestock, an Irish Art Performance platform during the covid pandemic.

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The times I would post parts of my private life on instagram were the times I felt most alone. I thought that somehow by posting them online I would feel less lonely. In hopes that someone would comment or reply, in hopes to feel seen.