Julia Scher

Borrowing its title from Marx, Scher’s first institutional survey brings together a selection of works from the last 30 years: multimedia installations, video works, sculptures and print and internet projects. Scher draws on this array of media to make explicit how technologies such as video surveillance, image recognition and automated database queries have become entirely mundane and structure our everyday reality.

Scher is known for numerous surveillance installations that address psycho-social dynamics and perversions, which we now appreciate as visionary. The formal, sculptural quality of her work is often overlooked, however. It is precisely this that the exhibition Maximum Security Society at Kunsthalle Zürich also aims to highlight.

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Picture: Julia Scher, Girl Dog (Hybrid), 2005, Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin, Photo: © Andrea Rossetti