In a society increasingly governed by metrics and constant efficiency, Poetics as Resistance poses a fundamental question: what if poetic presence is our most radical form of awareness?
In an era dominated by quantification, algorithmic surveillance, and the transformation of lived experience into measurable data, choosing a poetic practice is not an act of retreat — it is a revolutionary act of resistance. A more conscious world cannot be constructed through metrics, technological optimization, or the endless consumption of razor-sharp digital imagery. Real awareness requires a profound shift in how we perceive, feel, and inhabit our surroundings.
Poetics as Resistance directly opposes the static, quantifiable claim of traditional photography. Grounded in a process-based, performative practice, the work unfolds as a temporal flow and moving image piece. It is built from double-exposed analog imagery, grainy monochrome registers, domestic interiors, archival traces, and deep water surfaces where reflection and material dissolve into one another. Across its duration, the visual field moves through an accumulating way of seeing, resisting a single, stable frame.
© Carolina Billvik