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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Press

Release - 11 Feb. 2017. Berlin.</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Paolo

Cirio’s </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><b><i>Internet Photography</i></b> </span>artworks on view at Berlin’s photography museums.</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Paolo

Cirio’s artwork will be on view in two upcoming major exhibitions at the <b>C/O

Berlin</b> and <b>Museum für Fotografie</b>. Both of his series reflect on

surveillance and privacy by combining photography, Internet and street art.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Street

Ghosts</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> will be

installed inside and outside the <b>Museum für Fotografie </b>with four

artworks on its facade and entrance. Photos of individuals appropriated from

Google Street View are affixed at the exact physical spot from where they were

taken on Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://paolocirio.net/work/street-ghosts">https://paolocirio.net/work/street-ghosts</a></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Overexposed</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> will be presented at the <b>C/O

Museum</b> with three framed works painted on photo paper combined with several

street art posters. The large installation at Amerika Haus will present

unauthorized selfies and photos of Keith Alexander (NSA), John Brennan (CIA),

and James Comey (FBI).</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://paolocirio.net/work/hd-stencils/overexposed">https://paolocirio.net/work/hd-stencils/overexposed</a></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">You

are invited to <b><i>Watching You, Watching Me. A Photographic Response to

Surveillance at the Museum für Fotografie (February 17 – July 2,

2017) and <b><i>Watched! Surveillance Art & Photography</i></b> at <b>C/O

Berlin</b> (February 18 – April 23, 2017).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.co-berlin.org/watched-surveillance-art-photography-0">http://www.co-berlin.org/watched-surveillance-art-photography-0</a></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-fotografie/ueber-uns/nachrichten/detail/museum-fuer-fotografie-und-co-berlin-praesentieren-ab-februar-2017-erstmals-drei-inhaltlich-aufeina.html">http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/museum-fuer-fotografie/ueber-uns/nachrichten/detail/museum-fuer-fotografie-und-co-berlin-praesentieren-ab-februar-2017-erstmals-drei-inhaltlich-aufeina.html</a></span> </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Cirio’s

unique photo practice corresponds precisely to the approaches of these two

shows that tackle and investigate the social and political trajectories of

surveillance in correlation with art photography. Ultimately, his several works

and exhibitions on photography led him to coin the definition of <b><i>Internet

Photography</i></b>, </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">From

The Photographers’ Gallery London: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">“<b><i>Internet Photography</i></b> investigates the renewed

role of the photographic medium as it impacts the formation and understanding

of personal memory and social realities. Capturing the Internet

photographically means positioning the camera inside databases, screens,

networks, and algorithms.”</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="https://www.unthinking.photography/themes/machine-vision/internet-photography">https://www.unthinking.photography/themes/machine-vision/internet-photography</a></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Specifically,

with the latest project <b><i>Obscurity</i></b>, Cirio articulated “The

cultural and social norms regarding how we want to appear and communicate

online still need to be formed. Matters of exposure, shame, humiliation, and

stalking in addition to transparency, obscurity, accountability, privacy, and

surveillance have yet to be civilized in the new space we live in.”</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?&v=fcvA1id1ly0">https://youtube.com/watch?&v=fcvA1id1ly0</a></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Paolo

Cirio takes on this multifaceted shifting of the ethics, aesthetics,

potentials, dangers and contradictions of Internet Photography.

As his photography practice extends to unprecedented fields, questioning the

previously established cultural, economic and political implications of photos

that circulate within the Internet.<br><a href="https://paolocirio.net/press/texts/internet-photography.php">https://paolocirio.net/press/texts/internet-photography.php</a>  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> <br><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Further

exhibitions with works of <b><i>Internet Photography</i></b> by Paolo Cirio in

2017:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">-<span> </span><b>Haifa Museum of Art</b>, <i>AnonymiX: The

End of the Privacy Era</i> with <i>Street Ghosts</i> will open on February 18 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">-<span> </span><b>Münchner Stadt Museum,</b> <i>Images of

Surveillance </i>with<i> Overexposed</i> will open on March 24</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">- <b>Real

Art Ways</b> in Connecticut for <i>Nothing to Hide </i>with<i> Street Ghosts</i>

opens on March 4</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">- <b>Musée

National d'Histoire et d'Art of Luxembourg</b> with <i>Overexposed</i> and <i>Obscurity

</i>opens on April 6</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">-

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">for <i>Big Bang Data</i> with<b> </b><i>Obscurity</i> opens

on April 6</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Recent

exhibitions with works of <b><i>Internet Photography</i></b> in 2016:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">- <b>ICP

Museum</b> in NYC for <i>Public, Private, Secret </i>with<i> Overexposed </i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">- <b>AEC

Museum</b> in Linz for <i>Out of Control</i> with <i>Face to Facebook</i> and <i>Obscurity</i>

</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">- <b>FotoFocus

Biennial</b> in Cincinnati<b> </b>for Wave Pool with <i>Street Ghosts</i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

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</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Hong Kong City

Hall</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"> for Microwave

festival with<i> Street Ghosts</i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Among

many others exhibitions worldwide.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"> <br>

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</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">Recent

three Solo-Shows with <i>Internet Photography</i> in 2016:</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">-

<i>International Kunstverein Luxembourg </i>with<i> Street Ghosts</i></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><b><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_luxembourg_street-ghosts.php">https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_luxembourg_street-ghosts.php</a> </span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial"><br>-

NOME Gallery in Turin with <i>Street Ghosts</i>, <i>Overexposed</i> and <i>Obscurity</i></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><b><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_public-private.php">https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_public-private.php</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"> </span></b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial">-

NOME Gallery in NYC with <i>Street Ghosts</i>, <i>Overexposed</i> and <i>Obscurity</i></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -2in;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:times"><b><span style="font-family:arial;color:windowtext"><a href="https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_NYC_private.php">https://paolocirio.net/press/soloshow_NYC_private.php</a><br></span>

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