Significantly Mundane – Information at Your Fingertips
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What if someone—or something—encountered a person for the very first time, especially a person from our modern world? How would we seem to a non-human mind capable of understanding and reflecting on us, our behaviour, and the objects we surround ourselves with? This work seeks to “weirdify” the familiar—presenting a version of humanity that feels both recognizable and alien. By abstracting people and objects to the point where they lose their familiar form but remain contextually normal, the project aims to strip away personal biases and invite a fresh perspective. It’s about seeing humanity as if for the first time, revealing the strangeness and significance of the everyday.
This installation displays a parent, a child and a stranger, composed with the thought of them waiting for the bus, train or tram. The stranger holding a book, the parent looking into their phone, with streams of content reaching for it from the ground. The child observes and finds it normal, because it does not know of any other reality than what it observes.
Never has this scene been played out before some twenty years ago, and yet it is normal to us. Since we are genetically programmed to look upon the world in a certain way, and our upbringing has obscured our perspective on it, it is impossible know what we really look like, or how we are perceived in the grand scheme of things. However, I think it important to imagine and realize how ridiculously destructive, fascinating and complex we humans are. This is the purpose of “Significantly Mundane”.
