Editing is often understood as a secondary operation: a means of organizing pre-existing material into a coherent whole. Yet in contemporary image cultures, editing increasingly functions as a creative practice in its own right, producing meaning through selection, juxtaposition, repetition, and circulation. Situated between fandom, digital vernacular culture, and amateur craftsmanship, Normal People by Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann explores editing as a form of bricolage capable of generating aesthetic and narrative structures outside normative frameworks.
The work brings together two distinct image archives produced by the artist in different contexts: fan edits of American Horror Story made for niche online communities during adolescence, and photographs of handmade figurines created as props for a Pompeii-themed escape game. Presented as a slideshow, the two series continuously interrupt one another through an intentionally simple protocol of cuts, loops, and repetitions. Accompanied by a soundtrack that overlays audio from the television series with recordings recovered from the escape game environment, the work foregrounds compilation itself as both method and subject.
Rather than presenting a finished artwork, Normal People exposes the conditions through which images acquire value, affect, and coherence. By reactivating materials originally produced for pleasure, work, or decoration, the piece treats vernacular image-making as a site of artistic authenticity. In doing so, the artist considers how a generation shaped by scrolling, curating, and sharing images online might redefine the relationship between authorship, process, and aesthetic production.
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