Nonstop Gaze Research Unit
Samia Bzioui, Anna Reed, Agustin Rosa
March 21st - April 19th, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 21st, 7-10 pm
Persons Unknown is pleased to present Nonstop Gaze Research Unit. We built a world that watches everything. Walk in and see the wiring with Non-Stop Gaze Research Unit. Across painting, installation and the manipulated interface, three artists propose the exhibition as a diagnostic apparatus, a space in which the infrastructures that script desire, structure attention, and determine whose lives are valued and whose are rendered expendable are submitted to sustained scrutiny.
Samia Bzioui examines how political discourse and media narratives shape who is recognized as fully human and who is framed as expendable. Drawing from colonization and dehumanization theories, her work confronts the subtle processes through which communities are demonized, rendered suspect, and pushed outside empathy. Through layered painting, installation, and sculpture, she constructs charged visual environments that hold attention at the unstable threshold where recognition dissolves and humanity is denied.
Anna Reed uses her body as the primary material for works that unfold between physical and digital space. Working with Xerox, scans, and low-fi devices, she stages encounters between flesh and interface, allowing images to move from screen to print and back again. Her work exposes the negotiations embedded in these exchanges, revealing how agency shifts between human gesture and machine process. In this friction, the body becomes both subject and site of translation, fragmented and reassembled across platforms. Her work asks what remains of presence and control when the self is continuously mediated.
Agustin Rosa examines our intimate entanglement with the infrastructures that shape contemporary desire. His practice interrogates how devices are engineered to cultivate alienation, embedding these logics into everyday gestures. Acts of alteration and reconfiguration interrupt the familiarity of these objects and expose the ways they condition attention and habit. His work reflects on how systems designed for connectivity can also function as mechanisms control, blurring the boundary between what we hold and what holds us.
Taken together, the works in this exhibition asks what it means to be recognized and by whom. The artists reveal how perception itself is constructed, conditioned, and circulated across bodies, devices, and images. What emerges is a charged space in which the the infrastructures that co-constituve the contemporary subject are made visible and unsettled.
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