OLENA NEWKRYTA

1/4, Complicit Images. Screenings and Conversations on the Matter of Images, sujet

2/4, Sanaz Sohrabi, Scenes of Extraction, film still, 2023, copyright the artist, reproduced with permission of BP limited

3/4,Nafis Fathollahzadeh, Khabur, 2023, film still

4/4, Musquiqui Chihying, The Sculpture, film still, 2021, images courtesy of artist

Complicit Images.
Screenings & Conversations on the Matter of Images
3.5.-4.5.2024, Medienwerkstatt Wien (Austria)
18.10.-19.10.2024, Kino Rex Bern (Schwitzerland)

with films by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Musquiqui Chihying, Nafis Fathollahzadeh, Daphné Nan Le Sergent, Olena Newkryta, Suneil Sanzgiri, Sanaz Sohrabi
with lectures by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Maia Gusberti, Caitlin Berrigan
curated by Maia Gusberti & Olena Newkryta (The Golden Pixel Cooperative)

The programme "Complicit Images" presents films and performative lectures that question the role of visual media in the context of colonial surveying and exploration as well as in the extraction of raw materials and cultural knowledge. The selected positions not only examine how such processes are staged, documented and legitimised by visual means - they expand the realm of the image. By examining and excavating the political and historical dimensions of images layer by layer, they create new frameworks and visual spaces for engagement and interaction. The artists and researchers of this programme invite us to reflect on the social and political function of images by means of images themselves, and raise urgent questions about the visual construction of our (world)view and our visual literacy.