‘Follow’ Exhibition At FACT Featuring Work By Shia LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner And More; 10 December 2015 – 21 February 2016
In a world where we use Instagram ‘likes’ and Twitter ‘favs’ to assess who and what is important, and fame is just a click away; what impact is the internet really having on how we think about ourselves and those around us?
On 10 December 2015, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool opens the doors to Follow, a major exhibition which will feature new work by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, Cécile B. Evans, Debora Delmar, Candice Jacobs, Joe Orr and Simon Whybray. Artists also include Constant Dullaart and Mark Shepard, Julian Oliver and Moritz Stefaner. Presenting a variety of experiences and views of identity, sharing, and micro-celebrity within the context of a life lived online, Follow will explore how we act when everyone is watching.
Fame is no longer an aspirational dream and celebrities are no longer created on the exclusive space of the red carpet, but on our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls. We feel closer than ever to being able to reach them, befriend them, become them. But are we? Follow will investigate the use of image and identity as ever-changing concepts which can be bought, sold, mimicked, endorsed, deleted and validated through a single click, and the ways we can survive social media.
Like for like, follow for follow.
Follow is curated by Amy Jones & Lesley Taker at FACT.
Collaborators: Metal, Liverpool Hope University and Picturehouse.
Supporters: Connecting Cities through the EU Culture Programme and Goethe Institut.
FACT; 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ
