By Emilie Holst Egebo & Nanna Maria Kofod Schmidt
We have a growing concern that people, in the western world, have become numb towards images with graphic content. Studies show that continuous exposure to violent media and games desensitizes people to the pain and suffering of others.
Our artistic concept is a discussion of people’s relation to violent, televised types of graphics. We investigated if presenting images with a graphic content in an unfamiliar way can affect people’s sensitivity towards brutal imagery. We defamiliarized the presentation of the images by presenting them in an artistic context opposed to e.g. how they are presented by the news media.