""From the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and 80's to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment, video art and moving image has always operated at a crossroads: high and low, visceral and conceptual, personal and political," says Hack. "In Paradigm Shift, we see how great artists inspire us to engage with storytelling through screens differently: for us to feel more, imagine more and recover our senses.""
"Media is reworked from public access TV to VHS loops, on-the-fly phone content, and AI glasses with Ray-Ban Meta. Many of the works on show have non-traditional art origin stories: Jarman held screenings of the Super 8 Shorts in the studio with his community; Warhol's Fashion was released on public access TV; Bennani released 2 Lizards over Instagram during the Covid-19 pandemic, and Fei was commissioned and hosted on online video platform Nowness."
Paradigm Shift opens October 14 during Frieze week, curated by Jefferson Hack and Mark Wadhwa in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta. The exhibition presents historical and newly commissioned moving-image works by international artists spanning Super 8, VHS, public access TV, Instagram, online platforms, and AI-enabled devices. The show juxtaposes archival pieces and contemporary commissions to examine media-driven identity, performance, and cultural production. Several works originate from non-traditional platforms and communal screenings, highlighting grassroots distribution and social-media dissemination. Technology is positioned as central to shifting forms of storytelling, sensory engagement, and the democratization of screen-based art.
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