City Thermogram

Peggy Ahwesh's work creates a kind of renegade ethnography of the everyday, approaching culturally complex issues with disarming simplicity and risk-taking vulnerability. A portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera (on loan from Princeton's MIRTHE lab), "City Thermogram" recasts our photographic world into one of unexpected revelations about our bodies, energy sources and personal devices. While this technology is usually used for scientific purposes, in Ahwesh's hands the camera reveals the dynamism of the human body and offers a heat-based visualization of the electrical grid within which we all operate.

Presented by Times Square Advertising Coalition
Curated by Times Square Arts
Presented in partnership with Moving Image art fair
Video funded by the National Science Foundation