Hey Mom and Dad! I’m in the Russian Esquire: 💪📸
Here’s a Google translate which shows the beautiful interplay between the editor and Google translate both using their own poetic freedom.
"In 2015, the Dutch artist and creative director of digital marketing Triple Agency Robert Overweg opened his personal exhibition “Dreams of Reality” at the Pompidou Center. Printed screenshots from the Mafia 2 video game were hung on the walls of the exhibition hall. No gangsters, no retro cars. Instead, elements of the game landscape that are not on their own location: stairs, frozen in the middle of the sky; highway leading to the sea.
Overweg takes screenshots, fixing them, game errors. He does not pass the mission, ignores the intent of the developers and tries to go where the player should not walk, see things not intended for his eyes and document this. Exhibition curator tells guests that Overweg’s works can be compared to Rene Magritte’s paintings: Man's existential horror of being. Surrealistic images set off from the Pompidou Center at the Media City Biennale Seoul, and then visited several US photo galleries and private European museums.
Thus, screenshots from video games have become a full-fledged genre of photography. ≠"
They named it one of the 10 most influential pieces of the last few years.