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hybris


   




Hybris (2026) is a 360° interactive speculative tool created in response
to mass institutional archives by projecting ideational relationships
between images of "Unnamed People" in
the archive using symptomatic reasoning. In its next stage, Hybris will also source images from its own Ethical
Archive, created in community through protected user-submissions.

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Should we touch the sky?
MMR


Sprawling across the sky dome of Hybris are paintings, photographs, and prints of various men and women
throughout history. Figures weave in and out of a slick industrial frame and make unexpected contact with one another. These images are sourced from the National
Gallery of Art. Like other similar institutions, NGA contains a database of thousands of works which are filterable by parameters such as date, medium, and
subject. One of these subject filters is called
‘Unnamed People’.


Hybris works with these Unnamed People, mapping out speculative relationships between them, and restoring
a sense of dignity and life through reevaluating
questions of touch and proximity in relation to power.
For this reason, one of the defining intentions of
Hybris was to utilize distance as a protective mechanism. The viewer hovers in an immersive space, surrounded by a collage of historical-looking images of unfamiliar faces. Although the viewer can maneuver freely within the space, their relationship to these images remains distorted, dependent on their proximity to the figures. They are
unable to readily grab, and thus impulsively consume,
the Unnamed People of the mass archive unless they themselves willingly join Hybris’ alternative, the
Ethical Archive.


Historically, large institutional archives are
inseparable from the devastation of colonialism. They
were amassed through violence, exploitation, and theft, often creating monoliths of culture in the process. In response, Hybris is intentional in sourcing images of historically unprotected groups, such as women and
people of color, that do not contain narratives of
depicted violence or mockery to represent these figures
with respect, permission, and agency. By extension, the Ethical Archive of Hybris requires a conscientious
decision and activated presence from the user to
maintain those protective protocols. Only when we decentralize linear narratives told through the eyes of Eurocentric hegemony may we have the audacity to touch.





Images sourced from the National Gallery of Art.




Femme Malgacheet Ses Enfants

(Madagascan Woman and Her Children) (Plate3)

1863 

Désiré Charnay



Mother and Child in White 

c.1790 American 18th Century



Portrait of a Couple 

1924 

James Van Der Zee



Portrait of a Man 

c.1850

John Plumbe Jr.



Portrait of Two Men c.1860

American 19th Century



Portrait of a Woman

c.1850

Thomas S.Walsh

Portrait of Woman and Child

1855

Jean-BaptisteFrénet



Still Life,Flowers,and Fruit

1848

Severin Roesen



"The Letter"

1844-1845

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson



Torso,San Francisco

1923,printed 1950s

Dorothea Lange



Trailing Arbutus

1863

Fidelia Bridges



Woman of the"Orient"

1837

Henri Lehmann