STATELESS REVISION 1, MACHINE VISION by Chase Barnes

2023
From the series Stateless
Multi-channel video installation on dual NEC monitors
Dimensions variable
Edition of 1
Price upon request

“Stateless Revision 1, Machine Vision” was featured in the exhibition After-Hours at David Zwirner.

“We make and consume pictures in the ways we were taught, a ritualised vision we adopt without question. By utilising a plurality of photographic languages and methods–ranging from formal scenes composed with a 4x5 view camera, to black and white reportage shot with harsh on-camera flash reminiscent of crime scene photography–this project positions technological sight as a means which serves and conceals an oppressive social architecture.”

—Chase Barnes 

This moving picture installation superimposes corrupted photographic abstractions against images from the margins of the current American epoch. 

Chase Barnes is a photographer and designer whose work investigates industrial environments, workplaces, and the material conditions of labor, using formal compositions to explore the physical manifestations of economic systems. Barnes employs a research-based methodology, often spending extended periods documenting specific sites and communities to develop nuanced visual narratives around themes of production, consumption, and economic transformation. 

Barnes received a BFA from the University of Missouri in 2016 and an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2018. His work has shown at venues such as the RISD Museum; ClampArt in New York; Filter Photo in Chicago; and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. He has been featured in publications including Ain’t-Bad Magazine. As of Lucid Pleasures, Barnes lives and works in New York City, where he continues to develop projects that explore the visual manifestations of economic systems and their impact on communities and individuals.

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