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Vitasona Solutions: Very Serious Security Systems

Vita Kari, in collaboration with Jacob Barri

An imagined hearing aid company, Vitasona, turns the booth into a 1980s-inspired surveillance room, run live by the artist, the gallerist and their staff.

A tall woven tapestry hung on a white gallery wall, with a visitor in pink standing before it for scale
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.

The work

Vita Kari, in collaboration with Jacob Barri, introduces Vitasona, an ongoing conceptual project. Centered around an imagined hearing aid company, Kari creates a rewritten, speculative history of hearing technology.

Vitasona Solutions: Very Serious Security Systems extends this project through an installation that transforms the booth into a 1980s-inspired surveillance room. Tapestries stretched over wood panels stand in for CCTV monitors, while an ongoing performative element features Kari, Barri, and staff embodying exaggerated Vitasona surveillance room operators. Each textile is digitally woven with CMYK threads to resemble a glitched digital CCTV screen. Through this work, Kari considers the role of surveillance within assistive technologies such as hearing aids and glasses.

About the artist

Vita Kari (they/them) is a HOH/deaf, queer visual artist from Los Angeles. Working between sculpture and performance, Kari is obsessed with illusion. Their experience navigating the world through assistive technology informs a practice that treats accessibility as both material and method. Kari earned an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2024.

Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Wuhan, China, and Mexico City. Kari was named one of Artsy’s 30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now and recognized by the City of West Hollywood for contributions to accessibility and LGBTQ+ visibility.

Kari’s continuous video series The Craziest Thing About Being Creative examines the spectacle of digital attention and the loss of personhood online. They utilize durational performance in their practice.

Their upcoming institutional projects include work with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and a participatory installation at The Broad in Los Angeles. Kari has spoken at NYU, UCLA, and Chapman University.

Images

Four woven tapestries hung around a white gallery with a polished concrete floor
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
A crowd outside at night holding handmade signs, one reading “Say what?”, around a performer in a white suit
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
A purple and blue jacquard tapestry with a central figure and long hanging threads
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
A jacquard tapestry with a looping teal form on a patterned purple ground
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
A pale blue resin sculpture shaped like a wall plug, wrapped in cords and small figures
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
Two hand-shaped sculptures in patterned fabric joined by long strands of chain
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.
The Vitasona logo, an ear inside a shell beside the words “The Future Of Listening”
Vita Kari, Vitasona project. Courtesy of the artist and Jacob Barri.

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