Kafkaesque /ˌkafkəˈɛsk/ a Social media based GIF collages
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During the isolation of pandemic, I realised the routine, cyclic and continuous recurrence of same schedule. It seems like marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger, in the manner of something written by Franz Kafka. Understanding of Kafkaesque scenario during pandemic, is not only the absurdity of bureaucratic systems alone, but the irony of circular reasoning (by the characters of Kafka's stories) in reaction to it. I work with the tragic-comic stories acts as a form of mythology for modern Industrial Age employing a dream logic to the arbitrary systems in power and the individuals caught up in it. I also read it as the conflict between the autonomy of power and the naivety of utopian ideology, which were tested hard in the pandemic times.
I choose to work with the social media platform Instagram, which became one of the important channel for connecting people during their isolation. Using the available GIFs and compose them on photos aims create a surreal dream logic and address the challenged cognitive capacities of enforced solitude.
I choose to work with the social media platform Instagram, which became one of the important channel for connecting people during their isolation. Using the available GIFs and compose them on photos aims create a surreal dream logic and address the challenged cognitive capacities of enforced solitude.