Are you the kind of person who has a sticker over the camera on your laptop? Thought so. It might stop the hackers spying on you, but as we know (thanks, The Great Hack) surveillance is far more insidious than we thought. Anja Carr’s latest handmade, human-sized sculpture is a monkey, based on a 1970s Japanese Monchhichi-doll with electronic eyes that follow you. It looks innocent and cute, sucking its thumb, sitting passively drinking in information. But who is looking at who, and who is trapped by what? In the confines of its enclosure, the monkey prompts the question—chained to our phones, addicted to life as it happens inside a rectangular screen—are we really any different?
