Manufactured Consent is a photographic series that reworks the incessant flow of news media into a meditation on time, distortion, and ideological construction. Over several months in the lead-up to the 2020 United States elections, streams of rolling news footage were recorded as time-lapse, compressing hours of broadcast into accelerated fragments. These sequences were then rephotographed as long exposures, collapsing the already condensed into further abstraction where time is layered, blurred, and rendered opaque.
The result is an image-world that resists the singularity of the “decisive moment.” Instead it captures the saturation of mediated experience: endless loops of commentary, repetition, spectacle, and persuasion. What appears as information becomes a smear of colour and form, an aesthetic residue of overexposure. In this process the work stages the collapse of duration into simultaneity, the translation of narrative into texture, and the transformation of news into an unreadable accumulation.
Manufactured Consent reflects on how political realities are shaped less by singular events than by the ceaseless reproduction of images and discourse. By distorting time itself through compression, stretching and erasure, the work exposes the instability of media memory and the impossibility of locating truth in the deluge of representation.