Default Setting 2022

Single edition, 251 x 337 cm, Pews, Computer screens

Maikel Deekman

In the 1960s and 1970s, there were complaints from corporate furniture manufacturers and chocolate manufacturers that their brown product shades were not correctly portrayed on screen.

The unconscious bias built into photography to take white skin as the norm and take other skin tones as special corrective care – the Shirley card.

With this work Maikel Deekman questions the standard settings for photography, television, digital technology, and faith over the years.