Face 2 Face

objects, photographs, video, polaroids
2018/19

In Face 2 Face Claudia Larcher deals with a highly popular tool of digital communication. Emojis are used in text messages and chats to replace terms - there are over 700 of them.
In Claudia Larcher's video work, people are equipped with carved emoji masks and thus anonymized, but at the same time emotionally fixed. By setting the scene in exotic Sri Lanka, the global dimension of such forms of communication becomes obvious. Identity and representation in digital life as well as role models in real life are topics for discussion here.