Have you correctly erased your camera’s SD card? Lina A`s first UK-based solo exhibition with new photographic works sourced from forgotten SD cards – building upon a fascinating history of conceptual photography using found images.
The artist brings the critical conversation surrounding photographic authorship and data ownership into the new millennium, when she was born – only to warn us of the latest dangers in 2020s, courtesy of the boom of AI and its potential to shape and prune our fallible memories.
Lina memorialises analogue photographs. The ‘forgotten data’ that she has sourced second-hand from discarded SD cards and projector slides become her art objects. Like a home-decor anthropologist, she mounts photos in acrylic, on wood or in rotating digital frames. Here, she mimics the popular and sometimes kitsch gifts of the 2000s and 2010s for memory preservation.
Through this process of restoring what’s been previously lost, forgotten and decontextualised, Lina re-values this digital and analogue waste with new intent. She indicates how anonymous photographers and ordinary subjects alike can be filled with vibrancy and agency, through the many-layered emotional narratives they manifest in their reception with us, the viewers.
Exhibition on view at Rabbet Gallery, London, opening December 5th.
Words by Gina DeCagna
About the artist.
Lina A. (b. 2000) is a multidisciplinary artist working across film and moving image, experimental analog photography, AI, and archival footage. Her work has been displayed internationally in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. Her most notable exhibitions include the Art Graduate Prize Exhibition in London, the summer group exhibition ‘Patterns and Structures’ in Cambridge, and the group show off-RCA during Les Rencontres D’Arles opening week. She earned her Master’s degree in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2023.
More information: a4lina.com
