The Supermarket of Images (Since You Were Born, 2020)

photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie
photo © Jeu de Paume, by François Lauginie

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Title: The Supermarket of Images (Since You Were Born, 2020)
Institution:Jeu de Paume
Date:February 11 - June 7, 2020
Location:Paris, France

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For Since You Were Born, Evan Roth is printing all the images stored in his web cache – without establishing any kind of selection or hierarchy – since the birth of his second daughter. Family photos, logos, screenshots and advertising banners accumulate and saturate the visual space around the viewer, creating a portrait of the twenty-first century that is both personal and universal. Converting our online data into a narration created by technology, Roth enables us to see, physically, the huge quantity of images that we are in contact with.

— Jeu de Paume