This Image examines the phenomenological distinctions between the image, the photograph, and the text intended to explain its visual counterpart. These visual-textual formulas — ubiquitous in the online world — often falter due to their inherent generalization and reductive nature. Far from clarifying meaning, they frequently obscure context, generating ambiguity and misunderstanding. This dissonance — this void between the image and its textual description — becomes a focal point of inquiry in This Image.
The project interrogates algorithmic governance as a form of institutional censorship. By isolating platform-level restriction messages — the visual infrastructure through which algorithms mediate image circulation — the work exposes how computational systems have become primary curators of contemporary visual culture. Operating within the institutional critique tradition of Guerrilla Girls, Klaus Staeck and Barbara Kruger, the project reveals algorithmic mediation as political power structure rather than neutral technical infrastructure.
*All the text inscriptions are sourced from real-life contexts and have been minimally altered.
