LUmkA
LUmkA
Privacy Index
Privacy Index
2026
2026
55 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, UK, EC2A 3PT
55 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London, UK, EC2A 3PT
19 March - 11 April 2026.
19 March - 11 April 2026.
Ruby Chen, Nicholas Cheveldave, James Hoff, Miles Scharff, Linx Peng and Ivo Nagel
LUmkA is pleased to present the gallery’s first exhibition in London, United Kingdom Privacy Index, since its recent move from New York, New York. Privacy Index will be on view from 19 March 2026 to 11 April 2026, with an opening reception from 18:00-21:00 featuring a performance by LINX on 19 March 2026.
Our participation with the media -- a concealed labor-- is stored as data points in elusive encryption servers, where our interests and interactions are used to formulate and inform targeted marketing techniques and larger, the propaganda machine.
As theorized by Michel Foucault, the Panopticon conceptualizes power’s operation in society through constant and invisible observation. This omnipresence of surveillance, digitally and physically, informs a conscience to conformity within the boundaries of social norms and expectations. This self-performed regulation is not out of direct coercion, but in the recognition that one’s actions are subject to constant and invisible scrutiny.
As an act of opposition to normalized omni-veillance and consumer labor’s hyper accessibility, Privacy Index stages a tableau of interventions by artists who not only organize a mirror reflecting and exposing the condition, but suggest self-representation through encryption. The exhibition inspires contemplation to the unconscious performances of self-regulation and provokes consciousness’s ability to rewire for resistance.
Exhibition note: To exercise Privacy Index’s rejection to data mining the gallery will not be circulating images of the artwork and installation on media platforms. It is up to the audience whether they choose to decide the same.
Ruby Chen, Nicholas Cheveldave, James Hoff, Miles Scharff, Linx Peng and Ivo Nagel
LUmkA is pleased to present the gallery’s first exhibition in London, United Kingdom Privacy Index, since its recent move from New York, New York. Privacy Index will be on view from 19 March 2026 to 11 April 2026, with an opening reception from 18:00-21:00 featuring a performance by LINX on 19 March 2026.
Our participation with the media -- a concealed labor-- is stored as data points in elusive encryption servers, where our interests and interactions are used to formulate and inform targeted marketing techniques and larger, the propaganda machine.
As theorized by Michel Foucault, the Panopticon conceptualizes power’s operation in society through constant and invisible observation. This omnipresence of surveillance, digitally and physically, informs a conscience to conformity within the boundaries of social norms and expectations. This self-performed regulation is not out of direct coercion, but in the recognition that one’s actions are subject to constant and invisible scrutiny.
As an act of opposition to normalized omni-veillance and consumer labor’s hyper accessibility, Privacy Index stages a tableau of interventions by artists who not only organize a mirror reflecting and exposing the condition, but suggest self-representation through encryption. The exhibition inspires contemplation to the unconscious performances of self-regulation and provokes consciousness’s ability to rewire for resistance.
Exhibition note: To exercise Privacy Index’s rejection to data mining the gallery will not be circulating images of the artwork and installation on media platforms. It is up to the audience whether they choose to decide the same.