Shama Khanna will talk about the different forms of criticality enacted by her long-running curatorial platform, Flatness. The attempt of this multi-format project and website flatness.eu is to reconstitute the terms and relations under which artworks are produced and framed: aiming to reduce feelings of exhaustion, overexposure and compulsion. Drawing on pre-Web 2.0 online histories combined with a reflexive sense of care towards the the conditions and desires of artists working semi-digitally, Flatness presents a more porous context for artworks to be shared as part of a genuinely networked culture.

This online presentation forms part of the exhibition programme for ‘Image Power: The Art of Critique’ at Frans Hals Museum and Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, curated by Melanie Bühler, supported by the Goethe-Institut. The programme brings together works of twenty international contemporary artists that question the role of art in an image saturated world.