No Brainer

"No Brainer", the debut solo exhibition by B_489534_F, explores the paradox of digital culture—where endless connectivity fosters profound isolation. Presented at The Hill, Los Angeles, in collaboration with Encore, the exhibition reflects on the emotional detachment induced by technological infrastructures. The title "No Brainer" alludes to the automation of thought, the seamless, unconscious consumption of digital media, and the estrangement produced by algorithmic interaction. Within this conceptual framework, server racks, TV mounts, and LED screens—elements typically hidden in the background of the digital landscape—are reassembled as sculptural relics, exposing the physicality of an otherwise ephemeral network. Through immersive installations, the exhibition materializes the temporal and emotional erosion of the digital experience. Live-stream feeds of deserted beaches, projected within rigid industrial structures, transform into melancholic, infinite loops—landscapes of absence. Looping degraded TikTok videos, processed through filters of compression and decay, reveal how images are continuously reshaped, recontextualized, and eroded within digital spaces. The exhibition is defined by a dominant blue hue, referencing the cold glow of screens, the melancholy of digital existence, and the interfaces that mediate human interaction. Ethernet cables snake through the gallery, forming a physical network that mirrors the invisible structures shaping our lives, while elements of deep-fried meme aesthetics and surveillance imagery reinforce the loss of meaning through endless repetition. In an era of infinite feeds, "No Brainer" questions the blurred boundary between engagement and detachment, reality and simulation. By deconstructing the infrastructures that mediate presence, the exhibition challenges the viewer to reconsider the emotional weight of digital space and the nature of connection in an era of perpetual scrolling.