Textile narrations for the hyperpresent

Winning project of the 11th LABjoven-Los Bragales Award

Skeens looks at the assemblages of physical bodies and multiple digital extensions that conform most contemporary identities. Given their complexity and partial invisibility, and against the strategies of disinformation, commoditization and alienation promoted by accelerated mass-media corporations, Skeens suggests alternative relationships based on memory, finitude and affection. It attends to the subjective and emotional value of digital identities, while looking for formulas that could allow users to inhabit social media in more critical and compromised ways. 

In an attempt to come up with answers to the emerging questions, I undertook a process of dissection and re-appropriation of my own digital identity by means of the materialization of a small portion of my digital footprint: the last ten years of activity from my Facebook profile. With this purpose in mind, I made use of materials, skills and symbols from the textile tradition (naturally linked to the expression of identity, but also deeply entangled with the origins of computation), to create a series of works that embody different parts of the dataset archived by the most widely spread social network under my own user name.