Overflow
‘Overflow’ addresses the visual aspects of an excess of hyper-capitalism and its tendency to self-destruct in a plethora of technology and artefacts. The work takes its departure from urban places of transit, special economic zones, malls, hotels, casinos and so on. ‘Non-places’, as French anthropologist Marc Augé calls them.
Marvin Leuvrey’s series shows visually oversaturated surroundings, with a continuous flow of people, media devices, LED screens, industrial and computing technology and the artificial, man-made nature. The images are a mapping of the acceleration of our society, caused by permanent technological progress. Overflow is a metaphor for the ubiquity of media devices for the virtualization of reality, which increasingly approximates a simulation in which the boundaries between the real and the virtual start to dissolve.
