Oskár Čepan

2021 It might be nothing, but it could be something, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, /UK/; Time Out Of Joint, isthisit? /online/ 2020 screensavers watch you, Off Site Project, online /UK/; TransLocal Cooperation, Furtherfield, London /UK/ 2019 What do you need where you are?, Connect for Creativity Artist Residency, Romansto, Athens/GR/; Swayze Effect, Platform Southwark, Curated by AGORAMA, London /UK/; Sink Without trace, P21 Gallery, London /UK/; Walls 2.0- Augmenting border reality, Project launch, Elephant West, London /UK/; 404- Resistance in the Digital Age, RAGE collective, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, Manchester /UK/; For the Time Being, The Photographers’ Gallery, Curated by Curating Contemporary Art at Royal College of Art, London /UK/; Digital Diaspora, Studio 44, Stockholm /SE/; Digital Diaspora, Centrala, Birmingham /UK/ 2018 Summer Show, Florence Trust, London /UK/; [ENTER], Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Hamburg /DE/; From Space the Planet is Blue, From Space the Planet is the Territory, Sluice, London /UK/; Winter Open, Florence Trust, London /UK/ 2017 Bapor Tabo(o), Art Licks Weekend, London /UK/; Network, RAGE Collective, Movement, Worcester /UK/; SHOW 17, Royal College of Art, London /UK/; Odious Smell of Truth, RAGE Collective, Hockney Gallery, London /UK/ 2016 What Happens to Us?, Wimbledon Space, London /UK/; From Tripoli to Lampedusa on July 8, Performance, Kominek Gallery during Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles /FR/; As Document, Summerhall, Edinburgh /UK/ 2014 Frames, Glasgow International Art Festival, Glasgow /UK/; Binding Images, M4 Gastatelier, Amsterdam /NL/ 2013 In Search of the Crying Lady, Koki Arts, Tokyo /JP/; FOTOGRAFIA 2013, MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma), Rome /IT/ 2012 The Jill Todd Photographic Award, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh /UK/

EDUCATION

2015-2017 MA Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere, Royal College of Art, London 2008-2011 BA Photography & Film, Edinburgh Napier University

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2020 Google Maps Residency, Offsite Project, London/online; 2019 Connect for Creativity: Art and Technology Residency, Bios/ British Council, Athens /GR/; 2019 AGORAMA Artist Residency at Raven Row, London /UK/; 2017-18 Florence Trust Artist in Residence, London /UK/; 2016 La Cité Internationale des Arts Artist in Residence, Paris /FR/

Statement

My practice is largely concerned with the topics of border politics, forms of surveillance, and the proliferation of technology. I am particularly interested in the role technology plays in the construction of contemporary and historical narratives and how it affects and forms our understanding of reality. Working across media including installation, video, photography, and sculpture, my practice is characteristic of a critical approach to contemporary forms of power and blends together elements of defiance, skepticism, and cynicism. The subject of the European border, security, and division is in my works intertwined with fast-expanding surveillance in the physical as well as the digital realm. A reoccurring element within my practice is the reflection on the relationship between resistance and complicity and the role of the audience.

Curatorial statement

- Kametani speaks truth to power by adopting and deconstructing the digital apparatus for world segregation. -- “In her work, Tamara Kametani demonstrates how corporations and governments connect the promise of transparency and mobility to new technologies that ultimately help form a global economy of inequality separating privileged users from the disempowered. She therefore re-appropriates digital formats that serve to map, demarcate, monitor, and secure divided territories. At times, Kametami messes with the intended purpose of these media: she employs augmented reality not to expand real spaces, but rather to segregate them by means of virtual barrier walls. In another instance, she physically challenges Google to a one-on-one fight, by chasing a Streetview camera car down the streets of London, and later reassembling the chase from online images. Kametani speaks truth to power by adopting and deconstructing the digital apparatus for world segregation.” (Søren Grammel, jury member)