Thomas Hirschhorn, The Purple Line, exhibition view, MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2021). Courtesy of the artist and Fondazione MAXXI, Rome. Photo: Giorgio Benni.
As Thomas Hirschhorn says to describe Pixel-Collage, an impressive cycle of works created between 2015 and 2017, “The world needs to be depixelated”. For the first time, they are grouped, following a layout designed by Hirschhorn, on a very long purple wall – The Purple Line – that runs through the museum's gallery 3.
These works, created by recombining advertising photos alongside pictures of mutilated bodies, often create embarrassment in the viewer, making him reflect on a concept the artist has often expressed: the spread of hypersensitivity in the contemporary world.
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