During the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan in 2011 data were recovered from his personal computers and in 2020 a documentary was made using the declassified files. In this installation British artist
Kurt Champion does something different. He prints 2% of the images, revealing something that was found and recovered and allowing us to draw our own conclusions.
"Audiences watch while a small thermal printer sitting on a plinth releases a seemingly never-ending line of images that once belonged to Bin Laden during the final 5 years of his life. The paper twists, bends and ribbons as it finds its own path into the clear perspex box which sits on the floor below. "
I don't get the point. All the recovered material has been archived so the only thing destroyed is copies and maybe the source, but not the information. Probably there are backups and working copies of the archives also.
ReplyDeleteAll he's done is give us an indication of how much material was recovered.
Eh, maybe that's the point. duh (slaps forehead)