American Glitch

'American Glitch' is a look at the slip between fact and fiction and how this manifests in the U.S. landscape.

'American Glitch' is a look at the slip between fact and fiction and how this manifests in the U.S. landscape. In reaction to the growing distrust in the distinction between reality and fiction that characterizes the present, the duo began an exploratory journey through social media and photography in 2020. They have created an initial archive of over 1.500 photographs and current visual forms that manifests the influence of conspiracy narratives on American society and individual perception.

This archive of photographic forms of “alternative facts” engages in dialogue with landscape photographs by Orejarena and Stein in the installation “American Glitch”, which documents and decodes the supposed locations of conspiratorial events. By embracing traditions such as road trips and street photography, American Glitch interweaves continuities from American photographic history with the new phenomena of contemporary online culture.

The work is currently on view at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg in a solo museum show curated by Nadine Isabelle Henrich. An artist book of 'American Glitch' was published by Gnomic Book in 2023 with an introduction by ICP Curator David Campany. The book includes a booklet, with contributions from 36 writers, artists, and curators on conceptions of glitch in contemporary society.