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Gorzycki's videos question the politics of mainstream visual culture. In reckless echoes, Gorzycki incorporates violent war imagery from actual news footage with Hollywood entertainment. In doing so, the line between what is real and what is fictionalized entertainment blurs, as the source of the explosions, bodies, gun shots, news reports, tanks and ruin are indistinguishable as fact or fiction.
Projected next to reckless echoes is Unfurling, a work that recreates the American flag with pictures that saturate visual culture - cars with white headlights and red brake lamps horizontally scroll to suggest the flags' "stripes" while familiar blue logos hypnotically move across the screen to imply the "stars." Unfurling suggests the nation's common ground no longer relies on ideas of liberty and history (what the flag represents), but is founded in the participation of everyday consumption.
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