A slide projection inspired by a photograph of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton watching the killing of Osama bin Laden, with members of the US National Security team.
Through a process of association, interpretation and digital manipulation a two-channel projection reminds the viewer of our troubled relationships with conflict, ideology, power and truth.
The starting point of this 2012 work was the photograph by Pete Souza of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton watching the killing of Osama bin Laden with members of the US National Security team, and brings together re-worked visual material and textual extracts and quotations.
Seeing is Believing is a development of the exhibition project War as Ever! where Tracy & Edwin reflected visually on images of war and violence and explored the relationship between the historical and the contemporary role of the media in the representation of war and violence.
This work was made for Who told you so?! #2, Truth vs. Organisation, Onomatopee’s 2012 research project that featured four group shows in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
“A project wherein Onomatopee unleashes various designers and critics to highlight specific fields of ambiguity as stories of social cohesion: on the level of government, social organisation, scene and family. On these stages, we are challenged by texts and images to approach the narrations of our identity and stories of our cohesion. In four group shows that function as chapters, Onomatopee attempts to take an in-depth look into the story and the narration: our individual play with sources of information and the desire for social cohesion.”