As Cooper states: “In our post-representational world – where images are dislocated and free-floating across networks – how can we renegotiate an agency to images, imbue them with power, make them work for us?”

RIGGED displays the human being itself as a commercial good, the billboard-sized figures, installed throughout the space, focus on the body as a place for communicating ideas; re-coding and re-configuring new meanings. As the rendered images become disturbingly realistic, Cooper’s doppelgangers surround the observer in their muted formations, and narrate their own illusionary potential, which is more permanent than flesh.

The exhibition is curated by Ellen Blumenstein in cooperation with the Schering Stiftung.
An exhibition catalog with the graphic design by Michael Oswell is published by Sternberg Verlag.