Unrequited Recognition

Unrequited Recognition is a video installation made in collaboration with Nicholas Reilly-McVittie (Crewe, United Kingdom, 1993). It considers the nature of contemporary image-making technologies, examining their increasingly reflexive capacities through, for example, pattern recognition software. By drawing attention to the (mis)recognitions these technologies often produce, the work considers how they increasingly mirror the formation of a subjective identity (as understood in psychoanalysis) and thereby bring out an unconscious that makes itself known through slips - when they cease to work as we expect them to.