Shadi Habib Allah
Blind Spot gathers the practices of Shadi Habib Allah (b. 1977, Palestine), Shu Lea Cheang (b. 1954, Taiwan), Jeremy Laing (b. 1979, Canada), Lou Sheppard (b. 1982, Canada), and Iris Touliatou (b. 1981, Greece). Working across installation, performance, video, and digital interfaces, these five artists destabilize various sanctioned structures—the “default settings” of technological, medical, linguistic, and archival systems—to reorient perception toward what operates beneath the visible.
They seek out blind spots in common infrastructures, from software to cellular signals, through which subjectivities are experienced and normalized, exposing systematic gaps and suggesting ways to repurpose their functions toward more complex realities and new possibilities. The artworks emphasize processes requiring bodily engagement, prompting closer attention to what is considered a given, and to who and what generate the systems and technologies we encounter every day.