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🪨DATA FOSSILS🕸️🐌

🔛A retrospective of my work at Pozu Santa Bárbara in Asturies, Spain. An invitation by @levfestival to conceptualize an exhibition in an unconventional venue: a former coal mine.

🪏Until January 7th 2027🛤️

📸Credit: Elena de la Puente

🏞️Perched in the Asturian mountains, Pozu Santa Bárbara is a place steeped in history.
A mining region where the skeletal structures of a once-flourishing industry still stand tall and are seeking a renaissance.

The exhibition opened on Tuesday, October 6th, giving the public a chance to explore my work centered on digital culture from 2008 to the present day.

A large timeline allows visitors to deconstruct the exhibition’s geological structure, which is organized around five main themes: « Fossil Feed, » « Data Forage, » « Data Party, » « Content Creatures, » and « Stories. »

« Fossil Feed »
*Good Soup*: a triptych bringing together a collection of animated GIFs and Vines (RIP) revolving around three major recurring themes that have spanned the years: pizza, pop culture icons, and Pedro Pascal.

*Anne Horel TV*: a TV program designed to be broadcast on an old television set. It echoes the 1980s culture that shaped my childhood and adolescence, fueling my obsession with screen culture. Fake commercials, a mock news bulletin, music videos, and experimental animations blend drawings from 2006 with artificial intelligence.

An industrial drilling space that draws a parallel between the ore once extracted from the mine and data as the raw material of a rapidly evolving digital industry. 
We are discovering a new face to the Internet. It can be a playful, inspiring, innocent, community-driven space, but also the realm of algorithms, biased thinking, and the attention economy.

As a young culture, the Internet has already gone through several eras and is constantly mutating. Some platforms and tools endure and transform, while others vanish along with their content. This is the case for platforms like Myspace, Vine, and Skyblog, whose data was recently acquired by the @labnf (National Library of France).

I have always been prolific; my hard drives and CD stacks are overflowing with archives of a practice co
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