Tabor Robak "most significant work" at MoMA show in The New York Times

The New York Times reviewed the exhibition New Order at the Museum of Modern Art that runs until June 15. With Tabor Robak's work as one of the most significant works:

"Two of the most significant works, for me, were made a dozen years apart, during a time when imaging technologies developed at breathtaking speed. Harun Farocki’s “Eye/Machine I” (2001), a now-classic two-channel video, ultimately considers what will happen when war is waged by “intelligent” machines that read images and make decisions. Tabor Robak’s “Xenix” (2013) is a slick and seductive seven-channel work that looks like a blown-up version of your smartphone or desktop and displays such comically banal details as the weather and the contents of a refrigerator. It also shows GPS images and weapons, reminding you of how some technologies in our everyday lives developed out of military systems and the many ways people sacrifice their privacy to join social media or use a Google map. Where Mr. Farocki’s work pairs images in a thoughtful, more meditative way, Mr. Robak’s reflects the full-force scramble for our attention underway every time we glance at the internet or pick up a device."

Martha Schwendener

Read the full review here.

Image: Tabor Robak, Xenix, 2013.

 

Publication date: 11 Jun '19