“You are here” consists of wooden boxes with printed QR codes which are placed in two different locations in the surroundings of Seyðisfjörður. Scanning the codes will bring you, through the use of your smartphone, to a 360 degree view of where you are standing at the exact moment of scanning. In this work the artist shows concerns relating to the contrasts between online and offline lives, and questions what constitutes a real experience. It is the artist’s attempt to place the viewer in real time, to snap them out of a mode that could be called “living through devices”, a mode in which life is experienced through the lens of documentation, a second hand experience of life.

Hrafnhildur Gissuardóttir , HAH editions, 2016