With a click, windows open.
Cameras of homes, streets, warehouses, industrial areas, or quiet hamlets, left accessible through negligence.
All of this filmed, broadcast, forgotten, but visible to those who know where to look.
Digital Drift is the result of a silent wandering through these images captured by unsecured surveillance cameras.
This drift, both contemplative and intrusive, reveals the fragility of our intimacy in a world where surveillance has become ordinary. Each painting presented is the result of a video capture gleaned from this navigation of open digital streams, fragments often ignored, erased as soon as they appear. A digital stroll thus becomes an atlas of monitored landscapes, both banal and disturbing. Wide transforms these anonymous, accidental images into paintings of contemporary banality. We perceive the involuntary beauty of waiting, of emptiness, of everyday life without staging, but also the vertigo of a gaze without permission.
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