Watch me burn (2024) explores the complexities of digital identity verification, focusing on the exhausting and often invasive procedures individuals are required to undergo in order to authenticate themselves online.
The video takes the form of a monologue from the perspective of a protagonist struggling with acts of public self-authentication, reflecting broader tensions between individual autonomy and the systemic demands imposed by digital infrastructures. The work intentionally adopts a longer and more exhausting temporal structure than typically expected within TikTok's environment. Fragmented footage adopts a distinctly TikTok-native visual language, situating the work within the broader social and technological environment in which contemporary processes of online identity verification take place.
Form and Meaning course led by Jeremiasz Rzenno at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
Displayed at
Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Centre (2024) Warsaw
Impuls Event (2026) Katowice
Tools
Metahuman, Unreal Engine, After Effect