Julia Scher Les Détecteurs de Logiciels Malveillants / Malware Detected (10), 2022

Les Détecteurs de Logiciels Malveillants / Malware Detected consists of an aluminum panel, painted in Scher's signature pink color. Various electronic devices and spare components are presented on the panel. The electronic components are perceivably outdated, disconnected from the power or their networks, and thus stripped of their surveillance capacity. The work echoes Julia Scher's Security Landscape of the Year, 2002, with its pink foam board connected to a surveillance camera and a small monitor.

Emerging in the mid 1980s as precise but playful analyst of social and technological changes, Julia Scher has been dealing with video surveillance for more than 30 years. Her work addresses surveillance both as a concrete phenomenon of control, including its apparatus and architecture, as well as its impact on private and public sphere. Her early performance and video installations drew attention to the effects of increasingly ubiquitous cameras and monitors.