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Actual Size is pleased to host Secure Document an exhibition of recent works by Derek Frech, curated by Park Myers. Secure Document consists of three main works in which Frech has established a lexicon of encryption, security measures, and mechanisms of information protection. Directing attention to the peripheral constructs of information security, each work as well as the exhibition in its entirety strips the content to a point in which the very constructs and devices intended to provide security become the content in and of themselves.

The encryption is the content.

Redacted information, cryptography, and safeguarding technologies are currently experienced and utilized as a means of protecting the human subject. For this iteration of the exhibition at Actual Size Secure Document is comprised of two and three-dimensional works. Encrypted Documents is a series of layered prints in which an appropriated and reformed algorithm, used for the encryption of visual information, is applied to obscure documents containing redacted information. Only a certain selection of the prints will be on display, while the additional prints will be housed in a protective case. This protective case serves as a functional sculptural object in relation to the prints on plexiglass. Untitled abstracts information reception to a point of unintelligibility on behalf of the viewer via a screen-based animation, and points directly at how visual information is accessed and by what entity or technology. Tamper Evident a print and removal process on metal, is a symbolic creation of the moments in which forms of residue and marking serve as evidence of a breach or tamper with an object in order to protect the a person from harm or mal intent.

Secure Document focuses on the issues of how supposed authenticated information is understood, who is this information intended to reach, and lastly the rather impossible ability to understand information communication without an understanding of the invisible modifications, mediations and subsequent forms of reception that involved in visual communication. Secure Document places metadata at the fore, and restructures the hierarchies of information transmission and reception. This is a document of seemingly unintelligible information housed in a tamper evident device disseminating contextual, metadata as its objective intention.

741 New High Street Los Angeles CA 90012
Gallery Directors: Lee Foley, Justin John Greene, Corrie Siegel