OPENING: 6TH OF MAY, 17.00 - 19.30 HRS
Upstream Gallery is proud to present the third solo exhibition of Jan Robert Leegte (1973, NL) with the gallery titled No Content.
In 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The Medium is the Message”, in which he sought to point out that the content of media is not defined by the big changes in society, but by the character of the medium itself. An insight that seems relevant more than ever, in a world where consensus reality and democracies are eroding by the mere presence and dominance of social media.
This overlooking of the medium, blinded by the haze of content, also applies to the experience we have on a personal scale when interacting with media and specifically with the software of the networked computer. We get so distracted by the content, we are nearly always oblivious to the carrier and reality that holds it.
This exhibition can be seen as a protest against the endless waves of content that suffocate us personally and as a society, but above everything else, it should be seen as a contemplation on software.