Lauren Strom-Berg
Cooked Feels
30 April - 04 June, 2016
Reception: April 30, 7-10p
Peephole Gallery


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Early in 2016 San Francisco-based artist Lauren Strom-Berg spent two months collecting stills from security cameras around the world via a website that accesses thousands of security cameras not protected by a WPA password. Strom-Berg then incorporated the stills within intimate video footage of her surroundings and activities she previously created. Intermingling glimpses into unfamiliar places, Strom-Berg presents a video installation modeled from memory and imagination, creating the feeling of a virtual portal into multitudes of simultaneously unfolding realities. The result culminates in a curiously competing duality of place and emotion suggestive of a dream state while isolating a feeling inside a single moment.

Lauren Strom-Berg received a BA in Art History and Fine Art from San Francisco State University. Strom-Berg lives and works in San Francisco and has shown her work locally throughout the Bay Area.