Doomscrolling examines the compulsive consumption of negative news in an age of permanent connectivity. In a landscape of endless feeds and algorithmically amplified headlines, attention has become both currency and trap. We scroll from crisis to crisis—war, climate collapse, political extremism—caught in a loop where fear is constantly produced and absorbed.

The exhibition translates this digital condition into physical space. Impulsive, algorithm-driven image research forms the starting point: Brenner follows visual traces through search engines and social media, collecting press photographs and circulating motifs that reflect the emotional state of the present. Detached from their original contexts, these fragments condense into dense compositions where documentary references merge with speculative, almost science-fiction–like atmospheres.

Central to the process is the friction between hand and machine. Collected images are first reworked through drawing, then transformed using industrial techniques such as textile-silkscreen and woodcut milled by a CNC robot. This hybrid method mirrors the tension between subjective perception and automated systems.

By transferring images from drawing and screen to print, Doomscrolling interrupts the speed of digital consumption. The exhibition does not simply depict anxiety; it reveals its visual mechanics and questions how images shape collective emotion—and how new ways of seeing might emerge within the flood.

Curator: Silvia Höller

Katalogue-Text: Anna Fliri