War_overlays
Hauser & Wirth•Jun 12, 2026 — Sep 05, 2026
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For Zurich Art Weekend 2026, US artist Avery Singer presents new paintings and a site-specific architectural intervention transforming the upstairs Zurich gallery into a space reminiscent of a casino—a charged environment shaped by surveillance.
Incorporating AI-based tools into her painting process for the first time, ‘War_overlays’ examines how media and accelerating technologies shape our consciousness, destabilizing the boundaries between perception and reality. Following on from Singer’s body of work reconciling with her personal memories of 9/11, the new paintings reflect on the artist’s experience growing up amid televised conflict in the early 2000s, using distorted, AI-influenced imagery to evoke the mediated violence of the era.
Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s writings on the Gulf War, the exhibition considers how conflict in the West is primarily experienced as a media spectacle, constructed and construed through images rather than direct encounters. This dissonance is…
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War_overlays
Hauser & Wirth•Jun 12, 2026 — Sep 05, 2026
Press Release
For Zurich Art Weekend 2026, US artist Avery Singer presents new paintings and a site-specific architectural intervention transforming the upstairs Zurich gallery into a space reminiscent of a casino—a charged environment shaped by surveillance.
Incorporating AI-based tools into her painting process for the first time, ‘War_overlays’ examines how media and accelerating technologies shape our consciousness, destabilizing the boundaries between perception and reality. Following on from Singer’s body of work reconciling with her personal memories of 9/11, the new paintings reflect on the artist’s experience growing up amid televised conflict in the early 2000s, using distorted, AI-influenced imagery to evoke the mediated violence of the era.
Influenced by Jean Baudrillard’s writings on the Gulf War, the exhibition considers how conflict in the West is primarily experienced as a media spectacle, constructed and construed through images rather than direct encounters. This dissonance is…
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