In today’s world, we are not just surrounded by intelligent machines, but by a new reality that focuses on information and how to get it from one point to another as quickly as possible. The development of technological tools over the last decades has radically digitized our society, in which information is one of the most important power factors. Thanks to the sharing economy of the media, the visuality of online systems that display images has become almost more important than the content they display. In the age of image inflation, when “the Internet is both a ship and an ocean” (Paul Mason), errors can occur that create a new situation generated by chance.
The starting point of Sándor Dávid Papp’s exhibition Working memory is precisely to examine the abstract structures that result from this type of information loss and the art historical parallels that become recognisable in them. The title refers to a way of working based on the aesthetics of chance, where works are created as a juxtaposition of an unpredictable process and a given system. The works in the exhibition reflect on digital blind spots through the formal language of geometric abstract art in the light of post-capitalism.