Louis
Frehring

UP . 30.10.2026

Privacy

2017
Acrylic on canvas, Plexiglas, webcams, computer, screen.
Dimensions : 50 x 65 cm

Privacy is an installation in which viewers first encounter a chroma-key green monochrome, the colour used to replace a background in video. Farther away, a screen displays the feed from a webcam facing the painting. Viewers discover themselves on screen: their image has replaced the painting and become the subject watched by others. By making this capture of our image by a system visible, Privacy questions how personal data circulates and is collected, and how that process changes our relationship to intimacy.

Views of the exhibition Start-Up, Les Abords, Brest, 2017.
Photos : Louis Frehring