To hide in a culture that values hypervisibility is to disappear, to be removed, to not exist at all. To hide from a surveillance state, however, is to liberate oneself, to escape and evade in opposition.

To excavate oneself from the machinic eye, only the traces of the body visible, is to make one’s evasion aggressive. The redaction of the body is a disruptive camouflage: less of an invisibility cloak and more of a veil that functions as an amulet. Like the Evil Eye, defiant eyes staring back at the apparatus of image capture and asserting, resolutely, a refusal to be known.

OPENING RECEPTION:
April 22, 5:30PM—8:30PM
Broad Art Center, UCLA Campus
Grad Gallery & EDA

The show will be open April 22—April 24, 10AM—5PM Wednesday and 12PM—5PM Thursday and by appointment.
Visitor Parking available in Parking Structures 3 and 5.