“JG Ballard once claimed that the contemporary art gallery isn’t an aesthetic realm but a laboratory for social experiments, a view that could describe Ronnie Danaher’s approach. Shown on a vertical screen encased in a white monolith, her video iConfess originates from a workshop whose participants were encouraged to confess their sins against a fictional religion called Dataism.

Far from being private communions with God, these secular confessions – made wearing homespun liturgical costumes in simulated cathedral-like environments – are public spectacles of self-abasement mocking the narcissism of social media: “I confess to using a VPN to hide my data from Data…””