Artist Fyerool Darma
Equally topical was Fyerool Darma’s superlative exhibition of “screenshot culture,” or, as Ditzig described it, “post-Internet in Southeast Asia.” Central to the exhibition were eight textiles, handwoven by the artist and displayed in special frames made from fiber-optic cables, which were placed against a backdrop of digital debris: amplified and cut-out screenshots of games, news articles, and stock images from the artist’s online perambulations. Fyerool’s weavings are intentionally futile and imprecise exercises in recreating these digital images in analog form; his labors are evident in a disordered vitrine, the first thing visitors see, bearing his loom and rubbish from the exhibition’s production.
