- Visual Art
I Spy With My Little Eye
Tobias Molitor
27 June 2025 19:00–22:00
28 June 2025 10:00–22:00
29 June 2025 10:00–19:00
The work "I spy with my little eye" is a sculpture composed of various magazines and newspaper covers from a conventional newsstand. The covers are made of glass at a 1:1 scale and displayed on a shelf. Other covers are cracked or broken on the floor and table. The work represents an ordinary everyday scene and draws attention to the consumption of media and news.
Glass symbolizes two opposing aspects: on the one hand, visibility, and on the other, fragility. The visual consumption of news, current events, and everyday knowledge is represented through reproduced magazines made of glass. The viewer can look through the glass, causing the background and thus the image and appearance of the magazine to change.
Looking through the glass alludes, on the one hand, to the questionable transparency of media and our knowledge, which has become increasingly important to scrutinize in an era of rising fake news. On the other hand, glass also serves as a filter, distorting our perception of things. In this increasingly complex information landscape, where the boundaries between fact and fiction are becoming blurred, "I spy with my little eye" explores the fragility of our perception of reality.
Glass symbolizes two opposing aspects: on the one hand, visibility, and on the other, fragility. The visual consumption of news, current events, and everyday knowledge is represented through reproduced magazines made of glass. The viewer can look through the glass, causing the background and thus the image and appearance of the magazine to change.
Looking through the glass alludes, on the one hand, to the questionable transparency of media and our knowledge, which has become increasingly important to scrutinize in an era of rising fake news. On the other hand, glass also serves as a filter, distorting our perception of things. In this increasingly complex information landscape, where the boundaries between fact and fiction are becoming blurred, "I spy with my little eye" explores the fragility of our perception of reality.
Biography
Tobias Molitor
Tobias Molitor is a multidisciplinary artist and conceptual screen printer who lives and works in Berlin. His works focus on everyday products and fast-moving consumer goods that often receive little attention. His work explores the role of humans in the consumption cycle by documenting objects he has used himself or that have been left behind by strangers in various places. His oeuvre consists of ordinary objects combined with graphic elements that reflect cultural context and the "Zeitgeist". The screen-printing technique emphasizes the repetitive and industrial character of these objects. His works address themes such as cultural identity, consumption, mass production, and souvenirs.
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