Vipin Vijay has created a postapocalyptical internet mosaic, a mythological meditation and a philosophical monologue. Overgrown ruins are weaved together with impressions from a virtual landscape, scenes of young girls in colourful fabrics are followed by scenes from archaic temples and naked white rooms from India’s expanding IT-industry. The images seduce and can be read as a visual essay or a hypnotizing work of art. The Image Threads is a stunning contemplation on the nature of the virtual world and finding one’s identity in it. lo


