Privacy Forboden brought together Micro-Utopia, The Unselected, live camera systems, painting, printed matter, and a paper intelligence jacket. The exhibition treated privacy not as an abstract right but as a material condition that could be exposed, switched, delayed, and withheld inside the gallery.
Early computers and contemporary capture
The work juxtaposed the hopeful intimacy of early personal computing with the surveillance infrastructures that later formed around networked communication. Familiar machines became witnesses to a technological history in which connection and monitoring developed together.
The installation established a recurring strategy in Malzahn's practice: use the apparatus of surveillance to make the viewer feel the instability of their own position inside it.