Kimberly Reinhardt: “I have a fraught relationship with social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook. I see that these platforms are necessary for communication and promotion these days, but am also aware of the hidden imbalance of knowing that exists between users and
the businesses who manipulate and mine us for profit. Check out: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
In 2020 the bandanna become a charged object for me, a symbol of both protection and retreat, advancement and devastation. These bandannas are inspired by photographs taken by the cultural philosopher Paul Virilio for his 1967 book, Bunker Archeology which looks at abandoned WWII bunkers along the coast of France and the psychic space of war.”