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Glenn Ibbitson

Barcode; 6079 Smith; W

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Documentation

Signed

Origin

England

Period

New

Materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

W.	35.83 in;	H.	29.53 in;
W.	91 cm;	H.	75 cm;

Condition

New.

Creation Date

2020

Description

'Barcode' is a series of works provoked by the methods and algorithms employed by various corporations to track footprints through cyberspace and analyse this accumulation of personal information [often freely given by the subject themselves] to assemble a specific profile, ostensibly to refine targeted marketing. If generated by a retail corporation, this may offer more or less meretricious commercial rewards; in the hands of those controlling state apparatus and financial interests, the consequences may be far less benevolent. These are ‘Cassandra’ paintings, railing against the development of a social system where each individual is reduced to a consumer unit, or worse, a saleable commodity; assigned a value with no more dignity than any other off the shelf product; reduced to a de-personalised barcode.”

Oil on canvas, black contemporary frame

Styles / Movements

Contemporary, Other , Surrealism

Incollect Reference Number

407686