For Overexposed, Cirio tracked down photographs and selfies of government officials in order to consider the aftermath of the Snowden affair and satirize an era of ubiquitous surveillance and over-mediated political personas. The works are produced via a specially developed HD stencil technique. Keith Alexander served as director of the NSA until 2013 and is now a retired four-star general. [In the US military in Saudi Arabia, he was in charge of the intelligence teams involved in torture and prisoner abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.] Having illegally monitored US citizens’ phone calls and emails, Alexander lied several times to legislators and the press.
