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Napoli’s work is a fire hose applying an exaggerated saturation to the default. In this series of works he literally applies it to any angle you can take, any possible vantage point in which we can practise looking at the world through the corporate simulacrum we use to imagine what being there would be like. A painting of every crevice and corner.
The default being the Google streetview that so many people know. Where a Google car passed down the street while you were not there, and documented life as seen through the eyes of an anonymous passerby with automated authorship, a corporate ghost. While making this work, Napoli was in the back seat of this car.
The entire world is painted, depicted, documented, we navigate an anticipated vision. Documentation was already way ahead of you. Pinch tap and drag your tired eyes through the world, through roads where people went before. A world where photography appropriates shadows, but Napoli chose to paint.