CAUGHT.

Everyone got their own five years. This was mine.

Deep in lockdown I began saving screens. Not as a plan, but because the constant shifts in what was presented as settled fact no longer added up. Years later this has grown into large-format mosaics, each assembled from hundreds of individual screenshots, one per year, with Dutch and international versions running side by side. They are not translations. They are separate documents of the same period, captured through different algorithmic feeds. The gap between them is part of the work.

People often assume this is a COVID project. It is not. COVID accounts for roughly fifteen percent of the content, the opening chapter. What followed kept arriving without pause: finance, war, surveillance, elections, energy, technology. The same underlying pattern, new subject each time.

Each work exists as a large-format archival print with a Verisart certificate of authenticity. One per year, in two parallel versions. The archive keeps growing.

Large-format archival prints with Verisart certificates of authenticity, available now. Exhibition in development.

The feed never ends. Neither does this.

Caught, 2021–present. Jan de Koning / Studio Func.

Jan de Koning, Dutch, born 1982. Economist, entrepreneur and artist. He ran a hostel and a hotel for a decade and shaped surfboards before that. Based in Central America. Caught began as personal documentation during lockdown and expanded into five years of work. Studio Func is the label under which it operates.