The Canadian artist has brought together a collection of images that depict the storytelling of Google Street View since 2008.
The exhibition will be held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art from 8th October 2025, and the museum promises to show the humorous, the depressing, the glitchy and the acidic.
The archive touches on how the web affects modern lives. The collection is presented through photography, video and installation in a total scenography, also designed by the artist.
Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Louisiana, curator of the exhibition said: “The technology and the cameras don’t actually see anything despite the ‘nine eyes’ but are, according to Rafman, indifferent to what it photographs. Rafman’s project actually develops the images for the first time, which is similar to the time when you went to the darkroom to develop – and see – the images you had taken.”
The Google project started in 2007 and spanned many miles across over 100 countries. Cars were equipped with GPS and laser scanners photographing the landscapes of their national subjects. Over 200 billion photos exist after this mission.
What was caught on camera was not always straightforward imagery as somethings were picked up by the cameras which were not planned. Rafman worked on this mantra and said: “There are glitches in the technology that highlight how artificial Street View is – lucky little coincidences or accidents that create something beautiful. There are also the more hard-boiled, film noir-like scenes, like the man with the gun, the prostitute, the drunks, the whole seedy underbelly. There are romantic images and surreal, Jeff Wall-like images. There are ironic images, disgusting images, beautiful images and all the extremes of existence.”
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