How to Make a Monster / Basel, 2012
I AM ALONE
The words I AM ALONE are written across a wall. Each dot forming the letters is a QR code. When the work was made, the codes could be scanned with a mobile phone to reveal photographs of serial rapists, serial killers, child molesters or dictators.
The phrase places isolation at the centre of the work's investigation into how a person becomes a “monster”. The individual codes form a larger image: a mass of small, discrete elements becomes a single statement. The work also draws on the visual language of the internet, the circulation of images and mass communication, with an allusion to the Nazi flag.
The QR codes depended on links created for the original installation. Their present-day functionality has not been verified.
Detail
QR-code archive
Click a QR code below to open the corresponding photograph from the original archive.
