#unfriendmeifyoustillsupporthim was a month-long residency in the summer of 2018 at Artspace in Raleigh, North Carolina, culminating in a solo exhibition. It brings together multiple projects: selections from Recent Activity, Recent Activity – Raleigh, and I Feel So Lucky…
Collectively, these works are about social media: its effectiveness(-less) as an agent for change, as an archive of a particular moment in history, and as a magnifier of personal inadequacies. When life is mediated through social media, it is flattened and hyper-simplified. Every shared activity is met with the same limited menu of responses. Navigating others’ experiences is an emotional roller-coaster. How can I flit from loving baby pictures to angry- facing Trump’s latest inhumane cruelty? How many hashtags add up to actual change?
Jeana Eve Klein 