Angie Boro (born 1992, Paris) lives and works in Paris. Her practice investigates the fragile threshold between intimacy and surveillance, asking what remains of private experience in an age of continuous tracking. Working with the visual and technological infrastructure that...
Read MoreAngie Boro (born 1992, Paris) lives and works in Paris. Her practice investigates the fragile threshold between intimacy and surveillance, asking what remains of private experience in an age of continuous tracking. Working with the visual and technological infrastructure that organize everyday life, including live streams, surveillance cameras, GPS systems, retinal tracking and digital archives, she transforms mechanisms of observation into spaces of emotional inquiry.
The origins of her practice lie in childhood games she called “playing at life” and later in years spent working in real estate. Entering hundreds of strangers’ homes, she became an invisible observer of other people’s routines. This peculiar position (looking without belonging and witnessing without participating) continues to shape her methodology. Boro conceives each work as a dispositif activated in real time. The pieces unfold through processes of recording, transmission or long-duration observation, allowing technologies designed to monitor bodies and behaviors to reveal instead moments of vulnerability, attachment and care. Far from critiquing surveillance from a distance, her works inhabit its apparatuses from within, exposing the emotional residue that persists beneath systems of extraction and control.
Her practice unfolds through states of sustained attention in which observation becomes both method and medium. The resulting works invite viewers to occupy the unstable position of witness, where looking is never neutral but always implicates the observer. Presence becomes a way of revealing absence, while personal narratives emerge through infrastructures usually associated with hard data.
